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- Title
Molecular Heterogeneity of Beta-Thalassemia Intermedia in Turkey.
- Authors
Gurgey, A.; Altay, Ç.; Diaz-Chico, J.C.; Kutlar, F.; Kutlar, A.; Huisman, T.H.J.
- Abstract
A total of 38 patients with β-thalassemia intermedia from 30 families were studied. Twelve of the thirty unrelated patients had β°-thalassemia which was due to a homozygosity for one of two different thalassemia defects, namely the frameshift at codon 8, and the IVS-II-1 G→ A mutation. Another mild variation, a β +-thalassemia, was a homozygosity for the mutation of T→C at position 6 of IVS-1 (10 patients). Compound heterozygosities for mild thalassemic determinants or for one mild and one severe β-thalassemic determinant were also found in some patients with β-thalassemia intermedia. The mutations at β-39 and IVS-I-110 were the most commonly occurring thalassemic determinants in these patients. Correlations between genotype and phenotype indicated significant differences in some of the hematological parameters among patients with the IVS-I-6 and the frameshift at codon 8, IVS-I-6 and IVS-II-1, and the frameshift at codon 8 and IVS-II-1 mutations. Copyright © 1989 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Acta Haematologica, 1989, Vol 81, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0001-5792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000205394