Screening and genetic diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies.

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The haemoglobin disorders are a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by either the reduced synthesis of one or more normal globin chains (the thalassaemias), the synthesis of a structurally abnormal globin chain (the haemoglobin variants) or in a few cases by both phenotypes (the reduced synthesis of a Hb variant, e.g. Hb E). They are the commonest single-gene disorders known and approximately...

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