Welcome to our SCOOTER Alpha Globin Course. We have packaged SCOOTER open educational resources (OERs) up into courses and included a quiz at the end of each section for you to test your understanding.
Please follow links through to YouTube, and look at some of our other resources at www.sicklecellanaemia.org
Introduction to the Haemoglobin Molecule and Associated Genes
Cytogenetic Location of the Alpha Globin Gene
How Gene Expression and Haemoglobin Production Varies with Age
The Structure of the Alpha Globin Gene
The Nucleotide Sequence of the Alpha Globin Gene
The Alpha Globin Amino Acid Sequence
Sickle Cell Anaemia OER
These resources have a Creative Commons licence and you can use these resources however you see fit (in a non-profit way)
These resources are aimed at the Higher Educational student or for practitioners level
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Participants
About and Welcome
Introduction
Cytogenetic Location
How Gene Expression
Structure
Nucleotide Sequence
Amino Acid Sequence
Quiz