Advances in hemoglobinopathy detection and identification.

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Hemoglobin disorders consist of two different groups, the structural hemoglobin variants and the thalassemias. The structural hemoglobin variants typically are based on the point mutations in the alpha- or beta-globin chain that results in a single-amino acid substitution in the corresponding globin chain, whereas thalassemias are caused by quantitative reduction in globin chain synthesis. Various techniques are...

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