Carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis
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Tsang-Ming Ko; Li-Hui Tseng; Fon-Jon Hsieh; Pi-Mei Hsu; Tzu-Yao Lee
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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Alpha-thalassemia of Southeast Asian deletion (--SEA/) is very common in Southeast Asia. Homozygosity of this genotype is the major cause of Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis in Taiwan. With polymerase chain reaction using three oligonucleotide primers bridging the common deletion breakpoint, a DNA fragment