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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in southern Italy: a study on the population of the Cosenza province.
Gene geography : a computerized bulletin on human gene frequencies - 1 Dec 1991
Tagarelli A, Bastone L, Cittadella R, Calabrò V, Bria M, Brancati C
Abstract excerpt
35,660 healthy children attending secondary school in the Cosenza province, in the North of Calabria (Southern Italy), were screened for G6PD deficiency. Of 16,787 schoolboys, 209 were found to be G6PD deficient (1.24%). Of these, 99 (47.37%) had red cell G6PD activity below 5%, and they were classified as having the G6PD Mediterranean phenotype. The remaining 110 (52.63%), had a mild to moderate degree of...
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