Molecular basis for nondeletion alpha-thalassemia in American blacks. Alpha 2(116GAG----UAG).
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Molecular Basis for Nondeletion a - Thalassemia in American Blacks a 2116 GAG -
An American black woman was found to have the phenotype of moderately severe a-thalassemia normally associated with the loss of two to three a-globin genes despite an a-gl9bin gene map that demonstrated the loss of only a single a-globin gene (-a/ aa). Several individuals in her kindred with normal a-globin gene mapping studies (aa/aa) had mild a-thalassemia hematologic values consistent with t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci113041