The 12.6 kb-deletion in the -globin gene cluster is the known Thai/Vietnamese ( )0-thalassemia commonly found in Southeast Asia

Abstract

A recent publication by Ghedira et al. [1][1] described a cohort of 10 patients with five different types of deletions involving the beta(β) globin gene ( HBB ) cluster, two of which removed the γ-δβ intergenic region. Heterozygotes for the different deletions have different levels of fetal