Thalassaemia in Sri Lanka: Implications for the future health burden of Asian populations

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9206, 2000, Pages 786-791

  De Silva, Shanthimala ^a   Fisher, C A ^b   Premawardhena, A ^b   Lamabadusuriya, S P ^d   Peto, T E A ^b   Perera, Gayathri ^b   Old, J M ^b   Clegg, J B ^d   Olivieri, Nancy F ^c   Weatherall, D J ^b  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Sri Lanka)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; BETA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN E;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODON; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SRI LANKA; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 0034603546     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)08246-X     Document Type: Article

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