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"Sickle cell anemia is a hemolytic anemia caused by a single mutation in position 6 of the P globin molecule. About 80 patients with SCA in northern Israel are currently receiving treatment," investigators in Afula, Israel report (see also Sickle Cell Anemia).
"To assess a screening program in northern Israel aimed at detecting couples at risk for having offspring with SCA. Since 1987, screening for beta thalassemia in pregnant women in northern Israel has been conducted, and from 1999 all the samples were also tested for hemoglobin S, Hgb C, Hgb D, Hgb 0 Arab and others. During the 20 year period 1987-2006 a total of 69,340 women were screened; 114 couples who …
Source: HighBeam Research, New sickle cell anemia study findings reported from A. Koren and...