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The first study on nucleotide-level identification of Hb Koriyama in a patient with severe hemolytic anemia.
Annals of laboratory medicine - 1 Jan 2012
Park Seungman, Park Jun Eun, Cho Sung Im, Jeon Yongbum, Park Sung Sup, Seong Moon-Woo
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary hemolytic anemia comprises a group of disorders in which red blood cells are destroyed faster than they are produced in the bone marrow; various hereditary factors can cause this condition, including production of defective Hb and erythrocyte membrane. Recently, we identified Hb Koriyama, a rare Hb variant that was undetectable in Hb electrophoresis and stability tests, in a patient with severe...
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