Article
Presence of hemoglobinopathies in Sicily: a historic perspective.
American journal of medical genetics - 17 Mar 1997
Schilirò G, Mirabile E, Testa R, Russo-Mancuso G, Dibenedetto S P
Abstract excerpt
Sicily, at the center of the Mediterranean, has been the meeting place of Eastern and Western civilizations, and in the Sicilian population the presence of many different alterations in the globin gene clusters can surely be considered testimony of past colonizations. From 1975 to 1994, 100,000 S...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Globins
- Hemoglobins, Abnormal
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Point Mutation
- Sicily
- alpha-Thalassemia
- beta-Thalassemia