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BACKGROUND Abnormal haemoglobin variants (HbSS,AS,AC,SC,etc) have been known to be common among blacks. Patients with sickle cell disease are often faced with the risk of alloimmunization from allogeneic blood transfusion. OBJECTIVES The study was designed to sample students population of African descents for the purpose of updating information on the prevalence of abnormal haemoglobin varian...

INTRODUCTION Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common condition that is defined as glucose intolerance of varying degree with onset or first recognition during pregnancy and it affects approximately 5% of all pregnancies all over the world. GDM is not only associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as macrosomia, dystocia, birth trauma, and metabolic complications in newborns, but i...

thalassemias, because of climatic, geographic and ecological conditions, are the most common among the genetically endemic in iran, especially m provinces adjacent to the caspian sea and the persian gulf. there are over 14,000 cases of thalassemia major reported in iran. data, collected by the iranian ministry of health, and analyzed at the department of human genetics, school of public health,...

are presented on the ABO and Rh blood groups in relation to blood donors' marital status and childlessness. In a subsequent paper data will be presented on the ABO and Rh blood groups in relation to the number, sex, and mortality of blood donors' children. As in the previous paper the data have been obtained from a questionary completed by 5785 blood donors aged 20-65 of the Aberdeen and N.E. S...

BACKGROUND Blood is man's complete and unchangeable identity. The ABO and Rh groups are recognised as major and clinically significant blood groups. Blood group antigens are not only important in relation to blood transfusion and organ transplantation, but also have been utilised in genetic research, anthropology and tracing ancestral relation of humans. The objective the present study is to ex...