Sickle-cell disorders: Limits of descriptive epidemiology

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9861, 2013, Pages 98-99

  Darlison, Matthew W ^a   Modell, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN C;

GENE FREQUENCY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA;

EID: 84872091411     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61817-0     Document Type: Note

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