The molecular basis of α-thalassemia

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RARE DISEASE; UPREGULATION;

ALPHA-GLOBINS; ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RARE DISEASES; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; WORLD HEALTH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84866124484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011718     Document Type: Article

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