Weekly outline
About and Welcome
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
Introduction to the Haemoglobin Molecule and Associated Genes
Cytogenetic Location
Cytogenetic Location of the Alpha Globin Gene
How Gene Expression
How Gene Expression and Haemoglobin Production Varies with Age
Structure
The Structure of the Alpha Globin Gene
Nucleotide Sequence
The Nucleotide Sequence of the Alpha Globin Gene
Amino Acid Sequence
The Alpha Globin Amino Acid Sequence