Prediction of distributions of amino acids and amino acid pairs in human haemoglobin α-chain and its seven variants causing α-thalassaemia from their occurrences according to the random mechanism

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 80-84

  Wu, Guang ^a   Yan, S M ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Thalassaemia; Amino acids; Haemoglobin; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 52849093605     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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