Two new beta0-thalassemic mutations: a deletion (-CC) at codon 142 or overlapping codons 142-143, and an insertion

Philippe Lacan1, Martine Aubry, Nicole Couprie

  • 1Unité de Pathologie Moléculaire, Fédération de Biochimie et de Biologie Spécialisée, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.

Hemoglobin
|May 9, 2007
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