"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 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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Guo R, Neumann D, Lafferty M, Boelig R, Bell-Carey B, Edwards C, Greenspan JS, Derman R, Aghai ZH. Prevalence and Utility of Low Mean Corpuscular Volume in Infants Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. J Pediatr. 2020 12; 227:108-113.e2.
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Tamary H, Klinger G, Shalmon L, Attias D, Fortina P, Kobayashi M, Surrey S, Zaizov R. alpha-thalassemia caused by a 16 bp deletion in the 3' untranslated region of the alpha 2-globin gene including the first nucleotide of the poly A signal sequence. Hemoglobin. 1997 Mar; 21(2):121-30.
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Kattamis AC, Camaschella C, Sivera P, Surrey S, Fortina P. Human alpha-thalassemia syndromes: detection of molecular defects. Am J Hematol. 1996 Oct; 53(2):81-91.
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Fortina P, Parrella T, Sartore M, Gottardi E, Gabutti V, Delgrosso K, Mansfield E, Rappaport E, Schwartz E, Camaschella C, et al. Interaction of rare illegitimate recombination event and a poly A addition site mutation resulting in a severe form of alpha thalassemia. Blood. 1994 Jun 01; 83(11):3356-62.