Assertion: mild thalassemia | /r/HasProperty | alpha
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text: In mild thalassemia (alpha or beta), the red cells are strangely all the same size; there is virtually no variation.
text: If you just have one gene that’s defective/missing (in alpha thalassemia, the genetic “defect” is really a gene deletion, whereas in beta thalassemia, the genetic defect is one that affects gene transcription, translation, or processing), you’ll have a mild thalassemia (either alpha or beta).