Relationship of the sickle cell gene to the ethnic and geographic groups populating the Sudan

Community Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-120

  Mohammed, Abdelrahim O ^a   Attalla, Bekhieta ^a   Bashir, Fathya M K ^a   Ahmed, Fatima E ^b   El Hassan, Ahmed M ^b   Ibnauf, Gafar ^c   Jiang, Weiying ^d   Cavalli Sforza, Luigi L ^d   Karrar, Zein Al Abdin ^a   Ibrahim, Muntaser E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sudan)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; Malaria; Populations; Sickle cell gene; Sudan

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S;

AFRICA; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; GENE; GENETIC RISK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SUDAN; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUDAN;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33645716357     PISSN: 14222795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091489     Document Type: Article

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