Article
A beta-thalassaemia phenotype not linked to the beta-globin cluster in an Italian family.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jun 1992
Murru S, Loudianos G, Porcu S, Sciarratta G V, Agosti S, Parodi M I, Cao A, Pirastu M
Abstract excerpt
This paper describes a family of Central Italian origin in which three patients in two generations had either thalassaemia intermedia or a late presenting form of thalassaemia major. Sequence analysis of the patients' DNA revealed that only one of the beta-globin genes was affected by a beta-thalassaemia mutation (the codon 39 nonsense mutation), the other being completely normal, apart from the complex...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Mapping
- Codon
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement
- Globins
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
