"beta-Globins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Members of the beta-globin family. In humans, they are encoded in a gene cluster on CHROMOSOME 11. They include epsilon-globin, gamma-globin, delta-globin and beta-globin. There is also a pseudogene of beta (theta-beta) in the gene cluster. Adult HEMOGLOBIN is comprised of two ALPHA-GLOBIN chains and two beta-globin chains.
| Descriptor ID |
D055544
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.400.434.325 D12.776.422.316.762.403.325
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| Concept/Terms |
beta-Globins- beta-Globins
- beta Globins
- Non-alpha Globin Chain, Unspecified
- Non alpha Globin Chain, Unspecified
- beta-Globin
- beta Globin
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "beta-Globins" by people in Profiles.
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Griffin PJ, Sebastiani P, Edward H, Baldwin CT, Gladwin MT, Gordeuk VR, Chui DH, Steinberg MH. The genetics of hemoglobin A2 regulation in sickle cell anemia. Am J Hematol. 2014 Nov; 89(11):1019-23.
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Quintana AM, Picchione F, Klein Geltink RI, Taylor MR, Grosveld GC. Zebrafish ETV7 regulates red blood cell development through the cholesterol synthesis pathway. Dis Model Mech. 2014 Feb; 7(2):265-70.