[Our study showed that in most of the alpha thalassemia carriers just one copy of alpha globin gene was absent and they are not at risk of having children with Hb H disease or hydrops fetalis; however, up to 2.2% of neonates were carriers for ααα(anti3.7) triplication and they will be at risk for having a child with thalassemia intermediate if they marry a person which is a carrier of beta thalassemia.]. 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