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| Luz,Julio A. da; Sans,Mónica; Kimura,Elza Miyuki; Albuquerque,Dulcinéia Martins; Sonati,Maria de Fatima; Costa,Fernando Ferreira. |
| Hemoglobinopathies are the most common monogenic disorders worldwide; however, they have never been systematically studied from a genetic perspective in Uruguay. In this study, we determined the frequencies of hemoglobin variants in Afro-Uruguayans. A sample of 52 healthy unrelated Afro-Uruguayans from the northern (N = 28) and southern (N = 24) regions of the country was analyzed. Eight individuals (15.4%) were heterozygous for -alpha3,7thalassemia; seven of them (29.2%) were originally from the southern region, whereas one of them (3.6%) was from the northern region; the differences between both regions were statistically significant (p = 0.016 +/-0.003). The only structural mutation detected was betaS, which is typical of African populations. Four... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Hemoglobinopathies; Alpha-thalassemias; HbS; Haplotypes; Afro-derived populations. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572006000400002 |
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