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Prevention of beta-thalassemia in a large Pakistani family through cascade testing.
Community genetics - 1 Jan 2008
Baig S M, Din M A, Hassan H, Azhar A, Baig J M, Aslam M, Anjum I, Farooq M, Hussain M S, Rasool M, Nawaz S, Qureshi J A, Zaman T
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BACKGROUND: We report cascade testing of a large Pakistani family for beta-thalassemia alleles. The family was still practicing consanguineous marriages and was at risk of having more affected births. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to show that identification of disease carriers in families with index cases in order to create awareness about disease and provide genetic counseling would result in...
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