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Negro alpha-thalassaemia: genetic studies in homozygous sickle cell disease.
  1. G R Serjeant,
  2. K P Mason,
  3. B E Serjeant

    Abstract

    Interaction with the alpha-thalassaemia phenotypes lowers the proportion of Hb S in the sickle cell trait and influences the mean cell volume and proportional Hb A2 in homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease. By assigning somewhat arbitrary values to the alpha-thalassaemia 1 and alpha-thalassaemia 2 phenotypes in these conditions, it has been possible to investigate the patterns of inheritance of alpha-thalassaemia in black populations. The results strongly support the hypothesis that the alpha-thalassaemia 1 phenotype represents homozygosity for alpha-thalassaemia 2.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.17.4.281

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