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Hydrops fetalis associated with homozygosity for Hb Adana [alpha59(E8)Gly-->Asp (alpha2)].
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2010
Nainggolan Ita M, Harahap Alida, Setianingsih Iswari
Abstract excerpt
We describe cases of hydrops fetalis associated with nondeletional alpha-thalassemia (alpha-thal), in three unrelated Indonesian families. The genotypes of the fetuses and their parents were generated by DNA sequencing and by a polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP)-based method to rapidly identify mutations detected by sequencing. Two of the fetuses had hydrops fetalis and...
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