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[A family with dominant-phenotype Beta-thalassemia].
[Rinsho ketsueki] The Japanese journal of clinical hematology - 1 Mar 2002
Nakamori Yoshitaka, Fukuda Naofumi, Shinohara Kenji, Hattori Yukio
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We report a 43-year-old Japanese woman with microcytic and hypochromic anemia, who had been erroneously diagnosed as having iron deficiency anemia 20 years previously at the time of her first labor, and treated with iron and blood transfusion. At the present visit to our clinic, she was found to have an increased HbA2 level and prolonged glycerol lysis time. Genetic analysis of the beta-globin gene revealed...
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