[The severity of clinical expression seems to be modulated by coexisting alpha thalassaemia: the severely affected children have a normal complement of alpha globin genes with an unusual genotype (-alpha 3.7/alpha alpha alpha 3-7), while their father, who carries the abnormal gene with minimal symptoms, has homozygous alpha+ thalassaemia (-alpha 3.7/-alpha 3.7).]. 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