Article
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in the Albanian ethnic minority of Cosenza province, Italy.
Gene geography : a computerized bulletin on human gene frequencies - 1 Jan 2000
Tagarelli A, Cittadella R, Bria M, Brancati C
Abstract excerpt
The Albanian ethnic minority of the Cosenza province (Calabria, Southern Italy) is constituted by a population of 42,305 inhabitants living in 19 communes. The first presence of this population, in Southern Italy, dates back to the fifteenth century as a result of different immigrations. We have studied the G6PD in the population of this province by determining both the frequency of the G6PD-deficiency and the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Albania
- Alleles
- Child
- Consanguinity
- Ethnicity
- Gene Frequency
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- Humans
- Italy
