Six-year Outcome of the National Premarital Screening and Genetic Counseling Program for Sickle Cell Disease and β-thalassemia in Saudi Arabia

CONCLUSION: Six years of premarital screening in Saudi Arabia markedly reduced the number of at-risk marriages, which may considerably reduce the genetic disease burden in Saudi Arabia in the next decades. Ann Saudi Med 2011; 31 (3): 229-235PMID: 21623050 DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.81527
Source: Annals of Saudi Medicine - Category: General Medicine Tags: ISSUE 3 Source Type: research