Article
β-Thalassemia gene mutations in Antalya, Turkey: results from a single centre study.
Hemoglobin - 1 Nov 2016
Kurtoğlu Ayşegül, Karakuş Volkan, Erkal Özgür, Kurtoğlu Erdal
Abstract excerpt
β-Thalassemia (β-thal) is a common autosomal recessive disorder resulting from over 300 different mutations of the β-globin genes. Our aim was to create a mutation map of β-thal in the province of Antalya, Turkey. In this study, mutation analysis of a total 146 of β-thal patients followed at the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mutation
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Turkey
- Young Adult
- beta-Globins
- beta-Thalassemia