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Screening Extended Families for Genetic Hemoglobin Disorders in Pakistan

Author(s) -

Suhaib Ahmed,

Mohammed Saleem,

Bernadette Modell,

Mary Petrou

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmsa013234

Subject(s) - genetic counseling , medicine , carrier testing , family history , consanguineous marriage , prenatal diagnosis , pregnancy , demography , pediatrics , consanguinity , family medicine , genetics , surgery , fetus , biology , sociology

We have investigated a strategy for identifying and counseling carriers of recessively inherited disorders in developing countries where consanguineous marriage is common. In such communities, gene variants are trapped within extended families, so that an affected child is a marker of a group at high genetic risk.

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