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Six-year outcome of the national premarital screening and genetic counseling program for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Saudi Arabia has a high prevalence of hereditary hemoglobin disorders. Data has been collected by the Saudi Premarital Screening and Genetic Counseling Program on the prevalence of sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia but the outcomes were not quantified. We used six year...

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Autores principales: Memish, Ziad Ahmed, Saeedi, Mohammad Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623050
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.81527