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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease /
Until recently not at all well understood, sickle cell disease afflicts a very specific portion of the population, namely persons of African descent and, to a lesser degree, those from the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean area (some in the affected groups carry the disease without suffering...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
1995.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Until recently not at all well understood, sickle cell disease afflicts a very specific portion of the population, namely persons of African descent and, to a lesser degree, those from the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean area (some in the affected groups carry the disease without suffering from it themselves). Bloom discusses what the disease is, how it is transmitted, why it strikes whom it does, and the relationship between the sickle cell gene's geographic origins and how it has been spread throughout history. Addressing more personal matters, she considers emotional aspects of th. |
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| Item Description: | "For general readers a guide to understanding a debilitating genetic disease that affects tens of thousands who are of African ancestry"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781604737578 |