Fetal hydrops in Sardinia: implications for genetic counselling.

doi:10.1111/j.1399-0004.1990.tb03590.x

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Fetal hydrops in Sardinia: implications for genetic counselling.

Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 1990

Galanello R, Sanna M A, Maccioni L, Gasperini D, Melis M A, Rosatelli C, Monni G, Cao A

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This paper describes the first case of Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis syndrome in the Sardinian population. Despite the high frequency of a-thalassemia, fetal hydrops is extraordinarily rare in the Sardinian population because a-thalassemia is more usually the result of the single a-thalassemia globin...

Topics

Chorionic Villi Sampling
Chromosome Deletion
DNA Probes
Female
Genetic Carrier Screening
Genetic Counseling
Genetics, Population
Globins
Hemoglobins, Abnormal
Humans
Hydrops Fetalis
Infant, Newborn
Italy
Male
Mutation
Pregnancy
Thalassemia

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