Hemoglobinopathies in a black ethnic group in Colombia

https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v19i1.6200

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Published: Mar 31, 1988
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 1 (1988)
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  Miguel A. Escobar Bedoya Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia
  Hernán E. Duque Romero Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia
  Carlos H. Caicedo Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia
  Harold Barco Zota Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia
Abstract

A group of 104 negroes, 48 men and 56 women, were studied with the presence of abnormal hemoglobins. Sickle cell trait was found in 7.62%; hemoglobin C trait was found in 1.96% of the population. Neither hemoglobin CC nor high fetal hemoglobin nor high A2 hemoglobin were found.

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Miguel A. Escobar Bedoya, Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Hernán E. Duque Romero, Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Carlos H. Caicedo, Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Harold Barco Zota, Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

Estudiantes de X Semestre de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia

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Escobar Bedoya, M. A., Duque Romero, H. E., Caicedo, C. H., & Barco Zota, H. (1988). Hemoglobinopathies in a black ethnic group in Colombia. Colombia Medica, 19(1), 34–35. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v19i1.6200
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