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Mutational spectrum of thalassemias and other hemoglobinopathies in West Bengal, Eastern India.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2014
Chatterjee Tridip, Chakravarty Amit, Chakravarty Sudipa
Abstract excerpt
Thalassemia, an autosomal recessive blood disease, shows a variety of clinical expression in terms of asymptomatic to severe blood transfusion dependence. More than 500 alleles have been characterized in or around the β-globin region. Most of the geographical regions have their own characteristic alleles that predominantly circulate within the communities present in that particular region. In this article, we try...
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