| 1. | Either hemoglobinopathy or thalassemia, or both, may cause anemia.
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| 2. | Thalassemia is the most common inherited disorder causing anemia in India.
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| 3. | Patients with thalassemia don't make red blood cells.
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| 4. | In thalassemia, the gene fails to make enough hemoglobin.
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| 5. | Thus, some hemoglobinopathies are also thalassemias, but most are not.
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| 6. | Patients with ?-thalassemia also have low hepcidin levels.
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| 7. | The levels can be normal to increased in beta thalassemia.
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| 8. | In ?-thalassemia, production of the ? globin chain is affected.
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| 9. | Hypochromic anemia is also caused by thalassemia and congenital disorders like Benjamin anemia.
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| 10. | Total or partial absence of HBB causes a genetic disease called beta thalassemia.
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