Spectrum of β-Thalassemia Mutations in Some Areas of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of Southern China: A Study on a Pediatric Population Aged 0-15 Years.

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β-Thalassemia (β-thal), one of the most common form of single-gene inheritable blood diseases in the world, is highly prevalent in southern China, especially in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. To update the β-thal mutation spectrum in this region, we performed hematological and genetic analyses on 888 β-thal major (β-TM), β-thal intermedia (β-TI) and β-thal carrier patients, aged 0-15 years old, from...

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