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Thalassaemia Major (ß Thalassaemia)

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
Autosomal recessive. Persons with the carrier, or trait, state are generally healthy. They need a simple blood test to detect thalassaemia carrier state.

Prenatal diagnosis
Chorionic villus sampling from ten weeks of gestation and fetal blood sampling from sixteen to twenty weeks of gestation.

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Medical text written December 2001 by Dr B Wonke, Consultant Haematologist, Whittington Hospital, London, UK. Last reviewed October 2006 by Dr Paul Telfer, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Haematology, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. UK.

 

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