Waye John S, Eng Barry, Hanna Meredith, Hohenadel Betty-Ann, Nakamura Lisa M, Walker Lynda
Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton Health Sciences , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada .
Hemoglobin. 2015;39(3):209-10. doi: 10.3109/03630269.2015.1030410. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
We report a case of α(+)-thalassemia (α(+)-thal) trait in a Chinese-Canadian family caused by a novel frameshift mutation of the α2-globin gene, specifically the duplication of a single nucleotide at amino acid codon 56 [HBA2: c.168dup]. The mutation results in substitution of a termination codon (TAA) for lysine (AAG) at amino acid position 56.
我们报告了一个华裔加拿大家庭中α(+)-地中海贫血(α(+)-thal)特征的病例,该病例由α2-珠蛋白基因的一种新型移码突变引起,具体为氨基酸密码子56处单个核苷酸的重复[HBA2: c.168dup]。该突变导致在氨基酸位置56处赖氨酸(AAG)被终止密码子(TAA)取代。