 alpha-Thalassemia
"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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Below are the most recent publications written about "alpha-Thalassemia" by people in Profiles.
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Bender MA, Yusuf C, Davis T, Dorley MC, Del Pilar Aguinaga M, Ingram A, Chan MS, Ubaike JC, Hassell K, Ojodu J, Hulihan M. Newborn Screening Practices and Alpha-Thalassemia Detection - United States, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Sep 11; 69(36):1269-1272.
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Lal A, Wong TE, Andrews J, Balasa VV, Chung JH, Forester CM, Ikeda AK, Keel SB, Pagano MB, Puthenveetil G, Shah SJ, Yu JC, Vichinsky EP. Transfusion practices and complications in thalassemia. Transfusion. 2018 12; 58(12):2826-2835.
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Raffield LM, Ulirsch JC, Naik RP, Lessard S, Handsaker RE, Jain D, Kang HM, Pankratz N, Auer PL, Bao EL, Smith JD, Lange LA, Lange EM, Li Y, Thornton TA, Young BA, Abecasis GR, Laurie CC, Nickerson DA, McCarroll SA, Correa A, Wilson JG, Lettre G, Sankaran VG, Reiner AP. Common a-globin variants modify hematologic and other clinical phenotypes in sickle cell trait and disease. PLoS Genet. 2018 03; 14(3):e1007293.
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Hayward A, Ambruso D, Battaglia F, Donlon T, Eddelman K, Giller R, Hobbins J, Hsia YE, Quinones R, Shpall E, Trachtenberg E, Giardina P. Microchimerism and tolerance following intrauterine transplantation and transfusion for alpha-thalassemia-1. Fetal Diagn Ther. 1998 Jan-Feb; 13(1):8-14.
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