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  • Title: Prevalence and molecular identification of the mediterranean variant among G6PD-deficient Sistani and Balouch males in Southeastern Iran.
    Author: Miri-Moghaddam E, Mortazavi Y, Nakhaee A, Khazaei Feizabad A.
    Journal: Biochem Genet; 2013 Feb; 51(1-2):131-8. PubMed ID: 23108800.
    Abstract:
    To determine the prevalence of G6PD deficiency and a Mediterranean mutation among males in southeastern Iran, we studied 1,097 Sistani and Balouch schoolboys. A questionnaire was used to collect demographic data and a history of malaria infection; blood samples were evaluated for G6PD deficiency and the G6PD Mediterranean mutation. Of the 1,097 boys screened, 175 were G6PD deficient (5.8 % of the Sistani boys and 19.3 % of the Balouch boys). The malaria survey indicated that among Balouch subjects, malaria infection was about 14 times that of Sistani subjects. Molecular characterization of G6PD-deficient samples revealed a general frequency of 85.1 % for the Mediterranean variant among all subjects (75 % among Sistani and 86.2 % among Balouch cases). The high prevalence of G6PD deficiency among Balouch populations confirms the hypothesis that the distribution of G6PD deficiency is concordant with the geographic distribution of malaria.
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