Newborn screening for sickle cell disease in Brazil: The Campinas experience

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-19

  Brandelise, S ^a   Pinheiro, V ^a   Gabetta, C S ^a   Hambleton, I ^b   Serjeant, B ^c   Serjeant, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Bantu haplotype; Brazil; Isoelectric focusing; Newborn screening; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BRAZIL; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; NEONATAL SCREENING; PHENOTYPE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

EID: 1242272707     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9854.2003.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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