Diverse hematological phenotypes of β-thalassemia carriers.

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Most β-thalassemia carriers have mild anemia, low mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin, and elevated hemoglobin α2 (HbA2 ). However, there is considerable variability resulting from coinheritance with α- and/or δ-globin gene mutations, dominant inheritance of β-thalassemia mutations, highly unstable variant globin chains, large deletions removing part or all of the β-globin gene cluster, loss...

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