[In the majority of cases, Hb H disease results from double heterozygosity for alpha(0)-thalassemia due to deletions that remove both linked alpha-globin genes on chromosome 16, and deletional alpha(+)-thalassemia from single alpha-globin gene deletions (--/-alpha).]. 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