Brief Note: Hemoglobin S in Eti-Turks and the Allewits in Lebanon
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- 1 May 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Hematology in Blood
- Vol. 17 (5) , 657-659
- https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.v17.5.657.657
Abstract
(1) The incidence of sickling among 966 people belonging to the Eti-Turk community in southern Turkey was found to be 16.8 per cent. (2) Among the Allewits living in Lebanon—who are considered to have the same racial background as the Eti-Turks—the incidence of sickling was only 4 per cent.Keywords
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