Thalassemia in Malaysia.

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Malaysia is a multi-ethnic nation, comprising of Malays and other indigenous groups (67.4%), Chinese (24.6%), Indians (7.3%) and others (0.7%). Thalassemia, which includes α- and β-thalassemia (α- and β-thal), is one of the most common genetic disease in Malaysia. Between 4.5 and 5.0% of the Malaysian population were reported to be carriers of this disease and 3.0-40.0% were Hb E (c.79G>A) carriers. In 2013, the...

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