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Beta-thalassemia mutations in the Portuguese; high frequencies of two alleles in restricted populations.
Hemoglobin - 1 Feb 1993
Tamagnini G P, Gonçalves P, Ribeiro M L, Kaeda J, Kutlar F, Baysal E, Huisman T H
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We report the characterization of seven different beta-thalassemia mutations in 131 newly diagnosed Portuguese beta-thalassemia heterozygotes. Methodology included the detection of abnormal fragments by agar gel electrophoresis of PCR-amplified DNA fragments after digestion with specific restriction endonucleases, as well as hybridization with synthetic nucleotide probes and sequencing of amplified DNA. Four...
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