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Case report: Long-read sequencing identified a novel 14.9-kb deletion of the α-globin gene locus in a family with α-thalassemia in China
3 Mar 2023
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Background: Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disease resulting from globin chain synthesis impairment because of α- and/or β-globin gene variants. α-thalassemia is characterized by non-deletional and deletional variants in the HBA gene locus, of which rare deletional variants are difficult to detect by conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods. Case report: We report the case of a one-month-old...
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