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β-Thalassemia mutations in the Kurdish population of northeastern Iraq.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2010
Jalal Sana D, Al-Allawi Nasir A S, Bayat Nooshin, Imanian Hasham, Najmabadi Hossein, Faraj Azad
Abstract excerpt
A random 123 carriers of β-thalassemia (β-thal), identified by the Sulaimaniyah Provincial Premarital Screening Program in northeastern Iraq, were screened for β-thal mutations using multiplex polymerase chain reaction followed by reverse hybridization StripAssay and direct sequencing. A total of 11 different β-thal mutations was identified in the studied samples, of which eight represented 96% of the mutated...
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