[Normal newborn with four active alpha chain genes (alpha alpha/alpha alpha) have small amounts (average 0.55%) of this abnormal hemoglobin while increased percentages are present in newborn with an alpha-thalassemia-2 heterozygosity (alpha 0 alpha/alpha alpha; average 1.55%) or an alpha-thalassemia-2 homozygosity (alpha 0 alpha/alpha 0 alpha; average 4.65%).]. 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