A new study shows that a deletion-induced aberrant antisense transcript from a neighboring gene leads to methylation and silencing of the intact gene HBA2 (encoding human -globin A2) in a family with -thalassemia. Are there other chromosomal rearrangements that might turn off genes by such antisense-mediated cis-acting methylation?
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-globin A2) in a family with 
