Origin of the Sickling Gene
Abstract
SICKLING was first observed in an American Negro1. Many reports on the frequency of the sickle cell trait in various populations soon followed, and from them the conclusion was drawn that the black Negroes of the Central African Belt were the focus of this haemoglobin variant.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 1965
- DOI:
- 10.1038/205919a0
- Bibcode:
- 1965Natur.205..919K