Ferrara beta 0 thalassaemia caused by the beta 39 nonsense mutation.

doi:10.1038/307076a0

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Ferrara beta 0 thalassaemia caused by the beta 39 nonsense mutation.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Pirastu M, del Senno L, Conconi F, Vullo C, Kan Y W

Abstract excerpt

Ferrara type of beta 0 thalassaemia has two unusual features: first, normal beta-globin chain synthesis is inducible either in cell-free systems prepared from patients' reticulocytes by adding supernatant factors from non-thalassaemic reticulocyte lysates or in heterologous cell-free translation...

Topics

Gene Expression Regulation
Globins
Humans
Mutation
Suppression, Genetic
Thalassemia

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