Results exhibited that HBG1 gene harbors 7 similar variants in both the thalassemia patients and the carriers including 3 intronic variants (c.316-82T>G, c.315+59G>T and c.316-89G>T) and 4, 3′ UTR variants (c.*55delA, c.*6delC, c.*5A>T and c.*2dupC). Here, HBG1 is linked to thalassemia.