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An initiation codon mutation as a cause of a beta-thalassemia.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 1990
Jankovic L, Efremov G D, Josifovska O, Juricic D, Stoming T A, Kutlar A, Huisman T H
Abstract excerpt
During the course of a screening program for beta-thalassemia mutations among beta-thalassemia heterozygotes in Yugoslavia we observed a mutation (ATG----ACG) in the initiation codon of the beta-globin gene which has not been described before. The abnormality was initially detected through mapping of the beta-globin gene by Southern blot analysis using the restriction enzyme Nco I. The loss of the Nco I site...
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