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Interaction of rare illegitimate recombination event and a poly A addition site mutation resulting in a severe form of alpha thalassemia.
Blood - 1 Jun 1994
Fortina P, Parrella T, Sartore M, Gottardi E, Gabutti V, Delgrosso K, Mansfield E, Rappaport E, Schwartz E, Camaschella C
Abstract excerpt
The clinical diversity of thalassemia depends on interaction of diverse genetic defects. We have characterized a severe form of alpha thalassemia caused by coinheritance of a rare alpha-globin gene deletion and a nondeletional defect in a southern Italian family. The proband, a 7-year-old girl, exhibited an abnormal hemoglobin electrophoresis pattern with hemoglobin H and hemoglobin Barts, indicating inheritance...
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