Infant mortality and reproductive wastage associated with different genotypes of haemoglobinopathies in Orissa, India

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-25

  Balgir, R S ^a,b  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^b Kalinga Hospital Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

thalassaemia; Carrier couples; Haemoglobinopathies; Neonatal mortality; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE; GENOTYPE; INFANT MORTALITY; MARRIAGE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RURAL AREA;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; ORISSA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33847226308     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460601054673     Document Type: Article

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