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Hemoglobin
international journal for hemoglobin research
Volume 39, 2015 - Issue 6
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Letter to the Editor

Nomenclature Confusion in Deletion Mutations Involving Repetitive Nucleotides: A Lesson from HBB Gene Codon 35 (–C) vs. Codon 36 (–C)

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