TABLE XIII. | Beta-Thalassemia in the Chinese (number of chromosomes) (references in parentheses) |
Allele | South & SW PRC (1,2) | Taiwan (3,4) | Hong Kong (5) | Macau (6) | Malaysia (7) | Total | ||
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-29, A->G | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | ||
-28, A->G | 12 | 36 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 83 |
+1, A->C | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Codon 17, A->T | 35 | 36 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 95 | |
Codon 19, A->G | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Codons 27/28, +C | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
IVS-I-1, G->T | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | ||||
IVS-I-5, G->C | 1 | 1 | ||||||
IVS-I-128, T->G | 1 | 12 | 13 | |||||
Codons 41/42, -TTCT | 53 | 83 | 21 | 28 | 45 | 14 | 38 | 282 |
Codon 43, G->T | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Codons 71/72, +A | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |||
IVS-II-5, G->C | 1 | 1 | ||||||
IVS-II-654, C->T | 10 | 12 | 34 | 40 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 144 |
Hb Lepore | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Unknown; others | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
TOTAL | 126 | 188 | 74 | 86 | 93 | 35 | 72 | 674 |
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