"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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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 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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Invasive molecular prenatal diagnosis of alpha and beta thalassemia among Hakka pregnant women. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Dec; 97(52):e13557.
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Coinheritance of a- and ß-Thalassemia with a Novel Mutation (HBB: c.268_281delAGTGAGCTGCACTG) in a Chinese Family. Hemoglobin. 2017 Jul - Nov; 41(4-6):288-290.
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Molecular prenatal diagnosis of alpha and beta thalassemia in pregnant Hakka women in southern China. J Clin Lab Anal. 2018 Mar; 32(3).
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Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Kenyan Adolescents With a+Thalassemia. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Apr 05; 6(4).
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Anaemia, iron deficiency and a common polymorphism of iron-regulation, TMPRSS6 rs855791, in Rwandan children. Trop Med Int Health. 2014 Jan; 19(1):117-22.