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A 65 bp deletion in band 3 gene of beta-thalassemia patients in Indonesia.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Jan 2014
Dewajanthi Anna Maria, Lubis Vita K, Wanandi Septelia Inawati, Gatot Djajadiman, Soegianto Rondang R, Freisleben Seruni K U, Wahidiyat Iskandar, Freisleben Hans-Joachim
Abstract excerpt
We investigated whether in addition to the well known genetic alteration in red blood cell membrane band 3 protein, a deletion of 9 amino acids leading to ovalocytosis, other mutations to band 3 also exist. In 12% of our thalassemia major patients investigated, we found two bands in the agarose gel-electrophoresis of PCR products from band 3 gene with a difference of 65 +/- 10 bp, equivalent to a deletion of 20...
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