"delta-Globins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A member of the beta-globin family. In humans, delta-globin is encoded in the beta-globin gene cluster located on CHROMOSOME 11. Two delta-globin chains along with two alpha-globin chains form HEMOGLOBIN A2 which makes up about 3% of the HEMOGLOBIN in adults.
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D055546
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.400.434.325.249 D12.776.422.316.762.403.325.249
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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.