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Genetic modifying factors in beta-thalassemia.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine - 1 Feb 2000
Cao A, Moi P
Abstract excerpt
The beta-thalassemia is probably the most extensively studied genetic disease. Essentially any molecular defect that has been first described in association with the globin genes has been later implicated as a molecular determinant of newly discovered genes. Accordingly, the thalassemias have always represented a model genetic disease, especially in relation to the development of programs for population...
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