[The hemoglobin (Hb) F levels in these patients with severe beta thalassemia intermedia, compared with other forms of this condition in the Sri Lankan population and elsewhere, are unusually low, a consistent finding in extended alpha globin gene interactions and in dominant beta thalassemia, raising the possibility that increased levels of HbF production in beta thalassemia may require mutations at both beta globin gene loci.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE