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Genetic and clinical features of hemoglobin H disease in Chinese patients.
The New England journal of medicine - 24 Aug 2000
Chen F E, Ooi C, Ha S Y, Cheung B M, Todd D, Liang R, Chan T K, Chan V
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Normally, one pair of each of the two alpha-globin genes, alpha1 and alpha2, resides on each copy of chromosome 16. In hemoglobin H disease, three of these four alpha-globin genes are affected by a deletion, a mutation, or both. We studied the alpha1-globin gene abnormalities and the clinical and hematologic features of Chinese patients with hemoglobin H disease in Hong Kong. METHODS: We assessed the...
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