Distribution of the S and C haemoglobin variants in two nigerian communities
- 1 March 1956
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 50 (3), 204-208
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(56)90024-4
Abstract
Summary (1) Surveys by sickling tests and paper electrophoresis have been carried out on two widely divergent communities of Southern Nigeria, the Yoruba and the Igalla. (2) Haemoglobin S is fairly uniformly distributed, being present in 25 per cent. of the Yoruba and 18 per cent. of the Igalla. But whereas haemoglobin C was found in 7 per cent. of the Yoruba, none was found among the Igalla. (3) Possible ethnological reasons for this difference are discussed.Keywords
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