Article
[Structural variants of hemoglobin in Ibero-America].
Revista de biologia tropical - 1 Dec 1993
Sáenz Renauld G F, Rodríguez Romero W, Chaves Villalobos M
Abstract excerpt
Structural hemoglobin variants are reviewed for Iberoamerica; specially in Latin America, they reflect racial composition and geographic origin. Latin American genetic composition is a function of ethnic composition in each country (mainly Africans and Spaniards, and the "indians" or native peoples). For this reason the distribution of hemoglobin variants has been greatly affected by the individual and population...
Topics
- Ethnicity
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Hemoglobins
- Humans
- Latin America
- Mutation
