Development of allelic discrimination assay to detect Mediterranean G6PD mutation and its linked inheritance with normal vision and/colorblindness loci for 4 generations among Egyptian and Emirati families

G6PD deficiency c563T is the most common inherent blood disease among the Mediterranean populations and its molecular diagnosis is critical as the enzyme assay fails for heterozygous individuals. The purpose of the study is to estimate the ubiquity of the heterozygous G6PD Med (c563T) variants among...

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Main Authors: Lina Maloukh, Alagappan Kumarappan, Houssam El-Din El-Wakil, Fatima Al-Kamali, Fatma Gomma, Amin Akhondi, Rajya Lakshmi T.V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X21003831