Premarital screening for β-thalassaemia in Southern Iran: Options for improving the programme

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 62-66

  Karimi, Mehran ^a   Jamalian, Nima ^a   Yarmohammadi, Hooman ^a   Askarnejad, Abdolrasoul ^b   Afrasiabi, Abdolreza ^a   Hashemi, Alireza ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; SCREENING;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS;

EID: 34447540222     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/096914107781261882     Document Type: Article

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