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Molecular Basis of β-Thalassemia Intermedia in Erbil Province of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2015
Shamoon Rawand P, Al-Allawi Nasir A S, Cappellini Maria D, Di Pierro Elena, Brancaleoni Valentina, Granata Francesca
Abstract excerpt
β-Thalassemia intermedia (β-TI) is a clinical term describing a range of clinical phenotypes that are intermediate in severity between the carrier state and β-thalassemia major (β-TM). To characterize the molecular basis of β-TI in Erbil Province, Northern Iraq, 83 unrelated patients were investigated. Detection of β-globin gene mutations was carried out by reverse hybridization assay and direct gene sequencing....
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