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Sickle‐cell/β+‐thalassaemia in a Papua New Guinean: the first reported case of the sickle gene in Papua New Guinea
Author(s) -
Lavu Evelyn K,
Vince John D,
Oswyn Gilchrist
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04288.x
Subject(s) - new guinea , gene , hemoglobinopathy , cell , biology , geography , genetics , ethnology , history , immunology , hemolytic anemia
We document the first case of the sickle‐cell gene — Hb‐S gene importation leading to Hb‐S/β‐thalassaemia double heterozygosity — in the apparently previously Hb‐S gene‐free setting of Papua New Guinea.