Article
Enabling routine β-thalassemia Prevention and Patient Management by scalable, combined Thalassemia and Hemochromatosis Mutation Analysis.
BMC medical genetics - 15 May 2020
Hashmi Ghazala, Qidwai Asim, Fernandez Kristopher, Seul Michael
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Beta (β)-thalassemia is one of the most common inherited disorders worldwide, with high prevalence in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and South Asia. Over the past 40 years, awareness and prevention campaigns in many countries have greatly reduced the incidence of affected child bi...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Disease Management
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemoglobins, Abnormal
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Mutation
- Young Adult
- beta-Thalassemia