[During three months, 67.2% of all (748) newborns were screened: 122 (24.3%) had an abnormal hemoglobin pattern, of which 53 (43.4%) had a hemoglobinopathy (HbS or HbC), 64 (52.2%) had alpha-thalassemia (HbBarts greater than 0.5%, corresponding to heterozygous or homozygous alpha-thalassemia-2), and 5 (4.1%) had a hemoglobinopathy plus alpha-thalassemia.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE