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Further Molecular Analysis of G6PD Deficiency Variants in Southern Vietnam and a Novel Variant Designated as G6PD Ho Chi Minh (173 A>G; 58 Asp>Gly): Frequency Distributions of Variants Compared with Those in Other Southeast Asian Countries.
Acta medica Okayama - 1 Aug 2017
Kawamoto Fumihiko, Matsuoka Hiroyuki, Pham Nghiem Minh, Hayashi Taeko, Kasahara Yuichi, Dung Nguyen The, Kido Yasutoshi, Kanbe Toshio, Tantular Indah S
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a survey of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency among newborn babies at Tu Du Hospital, Ho Chi Minh, southern Vietnam. A total of 90 deficient babies were detected, including 85 in the Kinh ethnic group, 4 Chinese, and 1 in the K'Ho minority group. In the Kinh ethnic group, G6PD variants such as G6PD Viangchan (n=32), Kaiping (n=11), Canton (n=8), Chinese-5 (n=7), Union (n=5) and...
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