Article
Alpha globin gene deletions in amelioration of clinical severity in beta haemoglobinopathy subjects with the β<sup>0</sup>/β<sup>+</sup> genotype
2020-05-30
Abstract excerpt
Thalassemia is the commonest inherited hemoglobinopathy worldwide. Variation of clinical symptoms entail differences in disease-onset and transfusion requirements. Our objective was to investigate the role of alpha gene deletions in modulating the clinical heterogeneity of thalassemia syndromes. A total of 214 individuals with diagnosed beta-thalassemia major/intermedia were included in the study. Beta globin muta...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2a460b90-04c1-5534-9c01-6fcbf4a4d61e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.29.20117135
