α-Thalassemia (3.7 kb deletion) in a population from the Brazilian Amazon region: Santarém, Pará State

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 477-481

  Souza, A E S ^a   Cardoso, G L ^a   Takanashi, S Y L ^a   Guerreiro, J F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3.7 deletion; Alpha thalassemia; Brazilian population

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; GENE DELETION; GLOBIN GENE; HEMATOCRIT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MICROCYTOSIS; MUTATION RATE;

ALPHA-GLOBINS; ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; BRAZIL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS;

EID: 67649411673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol8-2gmr601     Document Type: Article

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