Updates of the HbVar database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemia mutations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue D1, 2014, Pages

  Giardine, Belinda ^a   Borg, Joseph ^b,c   Viennas, Emmanouil ^d   Pavlidis, Cristiana ^e   Moradkhani, Kamran ^f   Joly, Philippe ^g   Bartsakoulia, Marina ^e   Riemer, Cathy ^a   Miller, Webb ^a   Tzimas, Giannis ^h   Wajcman, Henri ⁱ   Hardison, Ross C ^a   Patrinos, George P ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE   (France)

^g EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^h Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece   (Greece)

ⁱ HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; HEMOGLOBIN; GLOBIN;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FINDBASE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HBVAR DATABASE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; LEIDEN OPEN ACCESS VARIATION DATABASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; THALASSEMIA; GENE FREQUENCY; POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 84891800625     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt911     Document Type: Article

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