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Different impacts of alleles alphaLEPRA and alphaLELY as assessed versus a novel, virtually null allele of the SPTA1 gene in trans.
British journal of haematology - 1 Oct 2004
Delaunay J, Nouyrigat V, Proust A, Schischmanoff P-O, Cynober T, Yvart J, Gaillard C, Danos O, Tchernia G
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The family of two siblings with severe hereditary spherocytosis was investigated. The decrease was evident on both the alpha- and the beta-chains. The parents were haematologically normal. The mother was heterozygous for the low-expression polymorphic allele alphaLEPRA. The father was heterozygous for a novel combination in which one allele showed the alpha-spectrin low expression polymorphic allele alphaLELY,...
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