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An evaluation of β thalassaemia mutations and the associated chromosomal haplotypes has been made among Algerian thalassaemic patients in this extended series. The major features of our findings are: (i) due to elevated proportion of consanguinity, the frequency of true homozygotes for a defect is high; (ii) Despite this high homozygosity within families, the number of molecular defects resulting in β thalassaemia are very heterogeneous within this population. This is exemplified not only by the high heterogeneity of haplotypes and associated mutations, but also by the definition of several new haplotypes, among which two of them were found to be associated with novel mutations. Family studies have been performed in parallel to evaluate the degree of feasibility of antenatal diagnosis in this population.
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Rouabhi, F., Lapouméroulie, C., Amselem, S. et al. DNA haplotype distribution in Algerian β thalassaemia patients. Hum Genet 79, 373–376 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282180
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