Prevalence of α-thalassemia 3.7 kb deletion in the adult population of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Prevalence of α-thalassemia 3.7 kb deletion in the adult population of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

α-Thalassemia, arising from a defect in a-globin chain synthesis, is often caused by deletions involving one or both of the a-genes on the same allele. With the aim of investigating the prevalence of α-thalassemia 3.7 kb deletion in the adult population of Rio Grande do Norte, 713 unrelated individu...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Henrique de Medeiros Alcoforado, Christiane Medeiros Bezerra, Telma Maria Araújo Moura Lemos, Denise Madureira de Oliveira, Elza Miyuki Kimura, Fernando Ferreira Costa, Maria de Fátima Sonati, Tereza Maria Dantas de Medeiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2012-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
alpha-thalassemia
-α3.7 kb deletion
Brazilian population
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