. . . . . . . . . . . . "[The multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) method was used to analyze 118 DNA samples from 90 alpha-thalassemia (alpha-thal) patients and 28 normal persons from Southern China, where the main causes of alpha-thal are three large deletions (-alpha3.7, -alpha4.2, and --SEA) and two point mutations in the alpha-globin gene cluster on chromosome 16.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2014-02-25"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:33:37+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .