Screening Extended Families for Genetic Hemoglobin Disorders in Pakistan

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BACKGROUND: We have investigated a strategy for identifying and counseling carriers of recessively inherited disorders in developing countries where consanguineous marriage is common. In such communities, gene variants are trapped within extended families, so that an affected child is a marker of a group at high genetic risk. METHODS: Fifteen large Pakistani families, 10 with a history of a hemoglobin disorder...

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