A single-tube multiplex gap-polymerase chain reaction for the detection of eight β-globin gene cluster deletions common in Southeast Asia

Hemoglobin

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 571-580

  Tritipsombut, Jaruwan ^a   Phylipsen, Marion ^b   Viprakasit, Vip ^c   Chalaow, Nipon ^c   Sanchaisuriya, Kanokwan ^a   Giordano, Piero C ^b   Fucharoen, Supan ^a   Harteveld, Cornelis L ^b  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Globin cluster deletions; Screening for thalassemia ( thal); Single tube multiplex gap polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CHINESE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FILIPINO; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIAN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BETA-GLOBINS; GENE ORDER; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84870268460     PISSN: 03630269     EISSN: 1532432X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03630269.2012.747441     Document Type: Article

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