[Prevalence and genetic profile of alpha-thalassemia in the newborn in Ivory Coast]

Med Trop (Mars). 1992 Apr-Jun;52(2):157-62.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report 525 cases of alpha-thalassemia tracked from samples of cord blood proceeded from 12,709 new-borns. With a frequency of 4.13% alpha-thalassemia was frequently in studied population. The lack of symptomatical shapes (Hemoglobin H disease and hydrops foetalis) agree the present theory about the genetic of Black African alpha-thalassemia.

MeSH terms

  • Blood Protein Electrophoresis
  • Cote d'Ivoire / epidemiology
  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Fetal Blood / chemistry
  • Hemoglobins / analysis
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Phenotype
  • Prevalence
  • Thalassemia / blood
  • Thalassemia / epidemiology*
  • Thalassemia / genetics

Substances

  • Hemoglobins