@article{Valeh Hadavi_Amir Hossein Taromchi_Mahdi Malekpour_Behjat Gholami_Hai-Yang Law_Navid Almadani_Fariba Afroozan_Farhad Sahebjam_Parisa Pajouh_Roxana Kariminejad_Mohammad Hassan Kariminejad_Azita Azarkeivan_Maryam Jafroodi_Ahmad Tamaddoni_Helene Puehringer_Christian Oberkanins_Hossein Najmabadi_2007, place={Pavia, Italy}, title={Elucidating the spectrum of α-thalassemia mutations in Iran}, volume={92}, url={https://haematologica.org/article/view/4519}, DOI={10.3324/haematol.10658}, abstractNote={α thalassemia (α-thal) is one of the most common hemoglobin (Hb) disorders in the world.<a class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-1">1</a> α-globin genes are located on chromosome 16. The majority of α-thal mutations are deletions but point mutations are found as well.<a class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-2" id="xref-ref-2-1">2</a&gt; Since the Iranian population is a mixture of different ethnic groups, frequency and distribution of α-globin mutations in various regions of the country need to be clarified. These findings can contribute to a wider understanding of this disorder.}, number={7}, journal={Haematologica}, author={Valeh Hadavi and Amir Hossein Taromchi and Mahdi Malekpour and Behjat Gholami and Hai-Yang Law and Navid Almadani and Fariba Afroozan and Farhad Sahebjam and Parisa Pajouh and Roxana Kariminejad and Mohammad Hassan Kariminejad and Azita Azarkeivan and Maryam Jafroodi and Ahmad Tamaddoni and Helene Puehringer and Christian Oberkanins and Hossein Najmabadi}, year={2007}, month={Jul.}, pages={992-993} }