A Mild Phenotype of Severe β+ Thalassemia in a 16-Month-Old Boy.

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β thalassemia is characterized by a deficient production of functional β-globin chains and a relative excess of α-globin chains. An extremely diverse clinical spectrum-asymptomatic to transfusion-dependent-is primarily due to homozygosity or compound heterozygosity for the very large number of β-thalassemia-causing mutations, along with interacting mutations that affect the α-globin and γ-globin genes and their...

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