'Race', ethnicity and haemoglobin disorders

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-131

  Dyson, Simon M ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; RACE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031832424     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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