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Profiling β-thalassaemia mutations in India at state and regional levels: implications for genetic education, screening and counselling programmes
1 Dec 2009
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UNLABELLED: Thalassaemia and sickle cell disease have been recognized by the World Health Organization as important inherited disorders principally impacting on the populations of low income countries. To create a national and regional profile of β-thalassaemia mutations in the population of India, a meta-analysis was conducted on 17 selected studies comprising 8,505 alleles and offering near-national coverage...
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