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The spectrum of beta thalassaemia in Burma.
British journal of haematology - 1 Aug 1992
Brown J M, Thein S L, Weatherall D J, Mar K M
Abstract excerpt
The molecular defects causing beta thalassaemia have been analysed in 85 unrelated Burmese patients. The patients included 14 with homozygous beta thalassaemia, 70 with HbE/beta thalassaemia and one with HbS/beta thalassaemia. Using a combination of allele-specific oligoprobe hybridization and direct sequencing of genomic DNA amplified by the polymerase chain reaction, 95/99 of the beta-thalassaemia alleles have...
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