β-Thalassemia mutations in the Kurdish population of northeastern Iraq

Hemoglobin

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 469-476

  Jalal, Sana D ^a   Al Allawi, Nasir A S ^b   Bayat, Nooshin ^c   Imanian, Hasham ^c   Najmabadi, Hossein ^c,d   Faraj, Azad ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUHOK   (Iraq)

^c Kariminejad Najmabadi Pathology and Genetics Center   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e Public Health Laboratory   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Thalassemia ( thal); Iraq; Iraqi Kurds; Mutation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CODON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALASSEMIA MINOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-GLOBINS; BETA-THALASSEMIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956902306     PISSN: 03630269     EISSN: 1532432X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01676830.2010.513591     Document Type: Article

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