Sickle-cell/beta+-thalassaemia in a Papua New Guinean: the first reported case of the sickle gene in Papua New Guinea.
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We document the first case of the sickle-cell gene--Hb-S gene importation leading to Hb-S/beta-thalassaemia double heterozygosity--in the apparently previously Hb-S gene-free setting of Papua New Guinea.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Australia
دوره 176 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002