Kanjaksha Ghosh, Roshan Colah, Mamta Manglani, Ved Prakash Choudhry, Ishwar Verma, Nishi Madan, Renu Saxena, Dipty Jain, Neelam Marwaha, Reena Das, Dipika Mohanty, Rajendra Choudhary, Sarita Agarwal, Malay Ghosh, Cecil Ross
The β-thalassemias and sickle cell disorders are a major health burden in India. Diagnosis and management of these disorders both in adults and in newborns using appropriate approaches and uniform technology are important in different regions of a vast and diverse country as India. In view of a National Thalassemia Control Program to be launched soon, a need was felt for guidelines on whom to screen, cost-effective technologies that are to be used as well as for establishing prenatal diagnosis programs in regional centers...
April 2014: Indian Journal of Human Genetics