Article
An initiation codon mutation as a cause of beta-thalassemia in a Belgian family.
Hemoglobin - 1 Feb 1993
Wildmann C, Larondelle Y, Vaerman J L, Eeckels R, Martiat P, Philippe M
Abstract excerpt
Nine asymptomatic members of a family of Belgian origin, spanning three generations, present typical features of heterozygous beta-thalassemia. Since no mutation was detected with a large panel of oligonucleotide probes, the thalassemia gene was investigated by direct sequencing of DNA segments a...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Belgium
- Codon
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Globins
- Haplotypes
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
