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The spectrum of haemoglobin variants in two scheduled tribes of Sundargarh district in north-western Orissa, India.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Balgir R S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tribal communities in India constitute a major part of the population and are vulnerable to many erythrocytic hereditary and haematological disorders such as haemoglobinopathies. Genetic studies so far undertaken on tribal groups are scanty, patchy and incomplete. No field-based systematic studies of hereditary haemolytic disorders in Orissa are available. Further, the extent of haemoglobin variants...
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