[Despite the similarity of these two mutations, the alpha 2 mutant results in a more severe loss of alpha-globin synthesis and a more severe clinical alpha-thalassemia phenotype than the corresponding alpha 1-globin gene mutation.]. 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