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Fanconi anemia in blacks

✍ Scribed by Alter, Blanche P.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 112 KB
Volume: 42
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320420330

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Letter to the Editor Fanconi Anemia in Blacks

To the Editor:

The article by Macdougall et al. [19901 on Fanconi anemia (FA) in black African children points out features which suggest that FA in blacks resembles more closely FA in every population group except Afrikaaners. However, they underestimate the frequency with which FA has been reported in blacks. There are at least 9 such references to 14 more cases [

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