| Literature DB >> 7076845 |
J Traeger, P Winichagoon, W G Wood.
Abstract
Hemoglobin E interacts with beta-thalassemia to produce a disorder of variable severity that is the most common form of symptomatic thalassemia in Southeast Asia. The beta E-globin gene acts as a mild thalassemia gene; there are low levels of beta E-messenger RNA (mRNA) in reticulocytes, and preliminary evidence had suggested that this might be due to instability of the beta E-mRNA. Analysis of beta E-mRNA levels in the nuclei and cytoplasm of bone marrow erythroblasts compared with reticulocytes has shown higher levels of beta E-mRNA in the former, providing direct evidence that this is the case.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 7076845 PMCID: PMC370162 DOI: 10.1172/jci110510
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Invest ISSN: 0021-9738 Impact factor: 14.808