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Evidence of genetic interaction between the beta-globin complex and chromosome 8q in the expression of fetal hemoglobin.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2002
Garner Chad P, Tatu Thanusak, Best Steve, Creary Lisa, Thein Swee Lay
Abstract excerpt
During human development, the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin (Hb) is not complete with the residual gamma-globin expression being restricted to a subset of erythrocytes termed "F cells" (FC). Statistical analyses have shown the FC trait to be influenced by a common sequence variant (C-->T) at position -158 upstream of the Ggamma-globin gene, termed the "XmnI-Ggamma polymorphism." The XmnI-Ggamma site is...
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