Hb H disease: clinical course and disease modifiers.

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Hemoglobin H (Hb H) disease is the most common form of thalassemia intermedia and has many features that require careful consideration in management. In the majority of cases, Hb H disease results from double heterozygosity for alpha(0)-thalassemia due to deletions that remove both linked alpha-globin genes on chromosome 16, and deletional alpha(+)-thalassemia from single alpha-globin gene deletions (--/-alpha)....

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