Article
Prenatal diagnosis of unusual hemoglobinopathies.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Mar 1994
Kim J H, Lebo R V, Cai S P, Su X, Chung J H, Mentzer W C, Golbus M S
Abstract excerpt
While analyzing 280 hemoglobinopathy kindreds with prescribed molecular tests, 3 unusual mutations were observed that required additional characterization. In the first case, the hypervariable region flanking the alpha-globin genes generated an intermediate length 8.2 kb psi zeta-globin gene frag...
Topics
- Anemia, Sickle Cell
- Base Sequence
- Chorionic Villi Sampling
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
- Female
- Fetal Diseases
- Frameshift Mutation
- Gene Deletion
- Haplotypes
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Humans
