| Literature DB >> 808940 |
V Grifoni, H Kamuzora, H Lehmann, D Charlesworth.
Abstract
A 59-year-old man with beta-thalassaemia major is unusually well. He has no beta-chains in his haemoglobin but is heterozygous for the genes responsible for alphaA and for alphaG Philadelphia. In addition he is also heterozygous for the genes responsible for gammaF and a new gamma-chain, gamma75(E19) Ile-Thr, named gammaF Sardinia. It was not possible to isolate the mutant gamma-chain, but from the overall ratios of Ggamma-:Agamma-Chain and gamma75 Ile : gamma75 Thr, it could be inferred that the mutation had presumably occured in the Ggamma-chain. Some of the propositus' siblings have high levels of Hb A2, and it is suggested that they possibly carry a gene for Lepore chain with the deltabeta-crossover after residue delta126.Entities:
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Year: 1975 PMID: 808940 DOI: 10.1159/000208204
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Haematol ISSN: 0001-5792 Impact factor: 2.195