. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Since compound heterozygotes for β-thal and a δ-globin gene mutation may have low mean cell volume (MCV) and normal Hb A(2) levels, and therefore be overlooked as β-thal heterozygotes, a detailed molecular analysis for both α- and β-thal is necessary, especially when one partner has been identified to have β-thal trait.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2016-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2016-05-13T12:49:34+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v4.0.0.0" . "v4.0.0" .