The Prevalence and Role of Hemoglobin Variants in Biometric Screening of a Multiethnic Population: One Large Health System's Experience.

Conclusions: This study represents one of the largest epidemiologic investigations into the prevalence of Hb variants in a North American metropolitan, multiethnic workforce and their dependents and reinforces the importance of method selection in populations with Hb variants. PMID: 28575177 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575177?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology - June 1, 2017 Category: Pathology Authors: Wilburn CR, Bernard DW, Zieske AW, Andrieni J, Miller T, Wang P Tags: Am J Clin Pathol Source Type: research

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