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Hemoglobin
; 41(4-6): 311-313, 2017.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29313434
ABSTRACT
ß-Thalassemia (ß-thal) is one of the most common inherited hemoglobin (Hb) disorders, worldwide. A 28-year-old female and her husband came to Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh for prenatal diagnosis for thalassemia mutations. We identified and characterized a novel ß-thalassemia (ß-thal) mutation due to an insertion of cytosine between codons 77 and 78 (p.Leu78Profs*13) found in mother in a heterozygous state. This mutation caused an insertion in the normal reading frame of the ß-globin coding sequence and the new stop codon being the amino acid 90 (HBB: c.235_236insC) in exon 2 that leads to a ß0-thal phenotype.