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Thalassæmia in an English and in a German Family

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REPORTS of thalassæmia (major and minor) in British residents of the United Kingdom are few1–6. Equally few are reports of the occurrence of this abnormality in subjects of German extraction7–14.

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VELLA, F., IBRAHIM, S. Thalassæmia in an English and in a German Family. Nature 191, 822 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191822a0

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