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Incidence and World Wide Distrubution 

  THE GEOGRAPHY OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSTANDING ITS DIVERSITY by Graham R. Serjeant, MD, FRCP at http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/annals/143/rev9239.html

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FIFTY-NINTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A59/9 Provisional agenda item 11.4 24 April 2006
Sickle-cell anaemia Report by the Secretariat on the worldwide incidence
http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA59/A59_9-en.pdf

Statistics by Country for Sickle Cell Anemia at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/sickle_cell_anemia/stats-country.htm

Sickle cell anemia and S-thalassemia in Sicilian children - http://www.sicklecellsociety.org/information/resrep/res14.htm

Sickle cell anemia and S-thalassemia in Sicilian children - http://www.sicklecellsociety.org/information/resrep/res14.htm

Sickle Cell in South Iran - http://www.sums.ac.ir/~ijms/9912/habibzadeh9912.html

WHO Sickle Cell World incidence - http://www.who.int/genomics/public/geneticdiseases/en/index2.html#SCA

Sickle cell disease in Africa.
Current Opinion in Hematology. 9(2):111-116, March 2002.
Diallo, Dapa MD *; Tchernia, Gil MD http://www.co-hematology.com/pt/re/cohematology/abstract.00062752-200203000-00005.htm;jsessionid=CGF2qtNWJemho1czHCjNkhR311gZVFUn5HQkU3LoBYd5JymQMNQJ!1641739476!-949856032!9001!-1

  CDC-Genetic Diseases - Sickle Cell Page - An excellent review of the chromosomal aspects of sickle cell, the US prevalence by state, and complication rates ( for high school Level)  at:  http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/hugenet/reviews/sickle.htm

  Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil - A slide show tutorial

  Natural History of Sickle Cell Disease in India at http://bimal_chandra_kar.tripod.com/SicklecellinIndia/

  World Health Organization -  An estimated 250 million people, or 4.5 % of the world population, carry a potentially pathological haemoglobinopathy gene.  Every year, 300 000 infants are born with major haemoglobin disorders, the most common being the thalassaemia and sickle-cell disorder.  Prevalence varies from under 0.1 births per 1,000 in some parts of the world to more than 20 per 1,000 in parts of Africa.  http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact209.html

  Worldwide GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF HAEMOGLOBIN DISORDERS http://www.thalassaemia.org.cy/articles/01Geog_Distrib.htm

  Incidence of Sickle Cell in the US

http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/training/books/21stcent4a.htm 

Sickle Cell Disease By Race: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat6.table.17411

Table 2. Prevalence per 100,000 population of sickle cell trait (AS) by race and/or ethnic group: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat6.table.17412

Table 3. Prevalence per 100,000 population of doubly heterozygous or homozygous hemoglobinopathies other than SS, SC, or S beta-thalassemia by race and/or ethnic group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat6.table.17413

Table 4. Prevalence per 100,000 population of other hemoglobinopathy traits by race and/or ethnic group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat6.table.17414

Sickle Cell Disease in Cuba at http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/cuba_scd.html

Sickle Cell Disease in India http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/india_scd.html

Sickle Cell and the Malaria connection at http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html

The migration of the Sickle gene and the four haplotypes http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C08/C08Links/www.mcet.edu/genome/sicklecell/genesis.html

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