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Hemoglobinopathies in newborns from Salvador, Bahia, Northeast Brazil.
Cadernos de saude publica - 1 Jan 2000
Adorno Elisângela Vitória, Couto Fábio David, Moura Neto José Pereira de, Menezes Joelma Figueiredo, Rêgo Marco, Reis Mitermayer Galvão dos, Gonçalves Marilda Souza
Abstract excerpt
Hemoglobinopathies are hereditary disorders of the hemoglobin molecule with a high prevalence worldwide. Brazil has a prevalence of 0.1 to 0.3% of newborns with sickle cell anemia and 20.0 to 25.0% of heterozygous alpha2 thalassemia among African Brazilians. In the present study, we investigated the presence of variant hemoglobins and alpha2(3.7 Kb) and alpha2 (4.2 Kb) thalassemia in newborns from Salvador,...
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