Knowledge and awareness of personal sickle cell genotype among parents of children with sickle cell disease in southeast Nigeria

Sickle cell trait (SCT; HbAS), the heterozygous state for the sickle cell allele of the beta globin gene, is carried by as many as 100 million individuals worldwide. Nigeria has the highest prevalence of SCT, impacting an estimated 25 % of adult population. This study was designed to assess timing o...

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Published in:J Community Genet
Main Authors: Ezenwosu, O. U., Chukwu, B. F., Ikefuna, A. N., Hunt, A. T., Keane, J., Emodi, I. J., Ezeanolue, E. E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567988/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25869330
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12687-015-0225-5
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