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Real-time quantitative PCR analysis for alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asian type deletion in Taiwan.
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 2001
Sun C F, Lee C H, Cheng S W, Lin M H, Wu T L, Tsao K C, Chiu D T, Liou J D, Chu D C
Abstract excerpt
Since homozygosity of the alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asian (SEA) type deletion results in hydrops fetalis, a novel protocol based on the real-time quantitating polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique has been developed to quantify the intact and aberrant alpha-globin genes in adults. The ratio of the normal/SEA-bearing alpha-globin genes was expressed in cycle threshold (C(T)) values. Theoretically, a...
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