thalassemia characterized
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- Thalassemia and abnormal haemoglobins are a serious health problem in Turkey.
- Hemoglobinopathies and thalassemias together form the most common genetic disease in the world.
- beta-Thalassemia, originally named Cooley anemia, is an inherited blood disease.
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital red cell aplasia in which 25% of the patients have a mutation in the ribosomal protein S19 (RPS19) gene.
- Beta (β)-thalassemia is characterized by a hypercoagulable state and an increased risk of thrombosis, which can result in significant morbidity and mortality.
- Sickle/β thalassemia is a sickling disorder of varying severity which results from compound heterozygosity for sickle cell trait and β-thalassemia trait.