 alpha-Thalassemia
"alpha-Thalassemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A disorder characterized by reduced synthesis of the alpha chains of hemoglobin. The severity of this condition can vary from mild anemia to death, depending on the number of genes deleted.
| Descriptor ID |
D017085
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.378.071.141.150.875.100 C15.378.420.826.100 C16.320.070.875.100 C16.320.365.826.100
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| Concept/Terms |
alpha-Thalassemia- alpha-Thalassemia
- alpha-Thalassemias
- Alpha Thalassemia
- Thalassemia, Alpha
- Thalassemia-alpha
- Thalassemia alpha
- A-Thalassemia
- Hemoglobin H Disease
- Disease, Hemoglobin H
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "alpha-Thalassemia" by people in Profiles.
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Xu YW, Zeng YH, Deng J, Liu Y, Gao L, Zhou CQ, Zhuang GL. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for alpha-thalassaemia in China. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2009 Jul; 26(7):399-403.
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Deng J, Peng WL, Li J, Fang C, Liang XY, Zeng YH, Sun HY, Zhou CQ, Zhuang GL. Successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis for alpha- and beta-thalassemia in China. Prenat Diagn. 2006 Nov; 26(11):1021-8.
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Deng J, Peng WL, Liu Y, Zhou CQ, Li J, Fang C, Lin WQ, Zhuang GL, Zeng YH, Tong DY. [Successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis for alpha-thalassemia using fluorescent polymerase chain reaction]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2005 Oct 12; 85(38):2682-5.
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