Hemoglobin E disorder: Newborn screening program

Hemoglobin E (Hb E) disorder is an important kind of hemoglobinopathy. It can be seen around the world with the highest prevalence in Southeast Asia. The screening for this disorder becomes the public health policies in many countries. The screening can be performed in several population groups. The...

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Autor principal: Wiwanitkit, Viroj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339538
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6866.120808
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description Hemoglobin E (Hb E) disorder is an important kind of hemoglobinopathy. It can be seen around the world with the highest prevalence in Southeast Asia. The screening for this disorder becomes the public health policies in many countries. The screening can be performed in several population groups. The newborn screening program for Hb E disorder is an important issue in pediatric genetics. In this brief review, the author discusses on important laboratory tests for screening for Hb E disorder in newborn.
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spelling pubmed-38415502013-12-11 Hemoglobin E disorder: Newborn screening program Wiwanitkit, Viroj Indian J Hum Genet Review Article Hemoglobin E (Hb E) disorder is an important kind of hemoglobinopathy. It can be seen around the world with the highest prevalence in Southeast Asia. The screening for this disorder becomes the public health policies in many countries. The screening can be performed in several population groups. The newborn screening program for Hb E disorder is an important issue in pediatric genetics. In this brief review, the author discusses on important laboratory tests for screening for Hb E disorder in newborn. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3841550/ /pubmed/24339538 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6866.120808 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Human Genetics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Hemoglobin E disorder: Newborn screening program
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