Interaction of different hemoglobinopathies in eastern India with a view to establish genotype-phenotype correlation

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 454-459

  Das, Swapan Kumar ^a   De, Madhusnata ^a   Bhattacharya, Dilip Kumar ^a   Sengupta, Bani ^a   Das, Nikhilesh ^a   Talukder, Geeta ^a  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

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