South-East Asian ovalocytosis among the population of the Highlands of Madagascar: a vestigé of the island's settlement.
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 96 (2) , 143-144
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(02)90282-8
Abstract
In the Madagascar Highlands, 0.76% of children from 168 random primary schools, and 19 of 150 families from 3 villages, had oval-shaped erythrocytes. Most harboured the deletion in the band 3 gene characteristic of South-East Asian ovalocytosis. This genetic trait supports the Indonesian origin of the Madagascar settlement.Keywords
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