Sangare A, Sanogo I, Meite M, Ambofo Y, Abesopie V, Segbena A
Service Hématologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Med Trop (Mars). 1992 Apr-Jun;52(2):157-62.
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.