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Neonatal screening for haemoglobinopathies: the results of a 10‐year programme in an English Health Region
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal identification of sickle cell disease can significantly reduce mortality and morbidity during the first 5 years of life. During a 10-year period, 414,801 neonates were screened by isoelectric focusing. The most common variants detected were haemoglobins S, C, D and E. Two hundred and fifty of the samples tested were homozygotes or compound heterozygotes, and 6554 samples were heterozygotes for the common...
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