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Molecular and clinical features of Hb H disease in northern Thailand.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2005
Charoenkwan Pimlak, Taweephon Rawee, Sae-Tung Rattika, Thanarattanakorn Pattra, Sanguansermsri Torpong
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Clinical assessment, hematological studies and molecular analyses were performed in 102 pediatric patients with Hb H disease in northern Thailand. A total of six mutations of the alpha-globin gene, which produced five genotypes, were detected. All patients had an alpha(0)-thalassemia (thal) deletion on one chromosome 16. All but one of these were of the South East Asian type (--SEA); one patient had the THAI...
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