Antenatal screening and fetal diagnosis of beta-thalassemia in a Chinese population: prevalence of the beta-thalassemia trait in the Guangzhou area of China.

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In this paper beta-globin gene mutations were detected in 452 beta-thalassemia carriers from 13462 unselected individuals (6731 pregnant women and their husbands) who were screened for the beta-thalassemia trait in the Guangzhou area of China. The incidence of beta-thalassemia was calculated as 3.36%. This is higher than found in previous studies performed in southern China. Using reverse dot blot analysis, we...

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