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Prevalence and clinical phenotype of the triplicated α-globin genes and its ethnic and geographical distribution in Guizhou of China.
BMC medical genomics - 7 Apr 2021
Luo Xi, Zhang Xiang-Mei, Wu Liu-Song, Chen Jindong, Chen Yan
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BACKGROUND: α-thalassemia is relatively endemic in Guizhou province of southwestern China. To predict the clinical manifestations of α-globin gene aberration for genetic counseling, we examined the prevalence of the α-globin triplication and the genotype-phenotype correlation in this subpopulation METHODS: A cohort of 7644 subjects was selected from nine ethnicities covering four regions in Guizhou province of...
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