Clinical application of targeted long read sequencing in prenatal beta‐thalassemia testing and genetic counseling

HL Chin, MC Benton, L Yang, KS Poon… - … Genetics & Genomic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Beta thalassemia, related to HBB mutation and associated with elevated
hemoglobin A2 (HbA2), is an important genetic hemoglobinopathy with high incidences of …

Case report: A novel 10.8-kb deletion identified in the β-globin gene through the long-read sequencing technology in a Chinese family with abnormal hemoglobin …

M Shao, Y Wan, W Cao, J Yang, D Cui, M Ma… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Thalassemia is a common inherited hemoglobin disorder caused by a
deficiency of one or more globin subunits. Substitution variants and deletions in the HBB …

Borderline hemoglobin A2 levels in northern Thai population: HBB genotypes and effects of coinherited alpha-thalassemia

P Chaweephisal, A Phusua, K Fanhchaksai… - Blood Cells, Molecules …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Identification of beta-thalassemia carrier in prenatal screening relies on the
elevated Hb A 2 level. Borderline Hb A 2 levels pose a diagnostic challenge. We determined …

Combined gap-polymerase chain reaction and targeted next-generation sequencing improve α-and β-Thalassemia carrier screening in pregnant women in Vietnam

TT Lam, DT Nguyen, QT Le, DA Nguyen, DTT Hoang… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Vietnam has a high thalassemia burden. We collected blood samples from 5880 pregnant
Vietnamese women during prenatal health checks to assess thalassemia carrier frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid targeted next-generation sequencing platform for molecular screening and clinical genotyping in subjects with hemoglobinopathies

X Shang, Z Peng, Y Ye, X Zhang, Y Chen, B Zhu… - …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Hemoglobinopathies are among the most common autosomal-recessive disorders
worldwide. A comprehensive next-generation sequencing (NGS) test would greatly facilitate …

Molecular prevalence of HBB-associated hemoglobinopathy among reproductive-age adults and the prenatal diagnosis in Jiangxi Province, southern central China

H Luo, T Huang, Q Lu, L Zhang, Y Xu, Y Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background and aims: Hemoglobinopathy associated with the HBB gene, with its two
general subtypes as thalassemia and abnormal hemoglobin (Hb) variants, is one of the most …

Noninvasive prenatal detection of hemoglobin Bart hydrops fetalis via maternal plasma dispensed with parental haplotyping using the semiconductor sequencing …

J Yang, C Peng, Y Qi, X Rao, F Guo, Y Hou… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Thalassemia is one of the most common monogenetic diseases in the south of
China and Southeast Asia. Hemoglobin Bart's hydrops fetalis syndrome was caused by a …

[PDF][PDF] Whole gene sequencing based screening approach to detect β-thalassemia mutations

S Chaudhary, D Dhawan, N Sojitra, P Chauhan… - Biol Med …, 2017 - academia.edu
About 200 causative mutations are characterized in the β-globin gene. Beta thalassemia
diagnosis is very complicated due to the genetic diversity of HBB gene across different …

Accurate and rapid prenatal diagnosis of beta-thalassemia by a multiplex primer extension and denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography technique

L Hua, H Zhu, XR Li, J Li, QH Mo, C Liao… - Zhonghua yi xue yi …, 2004 - europepmc.org
Objective To develop a primer-extension in combination with denaturing high-performance
liquid chromatography (PE-DHPLC)-based assay for prenatal diagnosis of the five most …

Case report: Long-read sequencing identified a novel 14.9-kb deletion of the α-globin gene locus in a family with α-thalassemia in China

Y Yuan, X Zhou, J Deng, Q Zhu, Z Peng, L Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disease resulting from globin chain
synthesis impairment because of α-and/or β-globin gene variants. α-thalassemia is …