...C. Altay; E. Yilgör; S. Beksac; A. Gürgey To identify premarital couples who are carriers for hemoglobinopathies, a screening study was conducted in one of the southern cities of Turkey. For 2,113 couples, total blood count, Hb A 2 and Hb F levels were determined and hemoglobin electrophoresis...

... newborns. The most common findings were AS (1.9%), AC (0.8%) and β -thalassemia (0.8%) heterozygotes, which amount to 3.5% of the sample. In a second selected population of 1,023 patients of the Hematologic Clinic of the University Hospital and their relatives, 471 cases of hemoglobinopathies were detected...