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[Hereditary elliptocytosis in the Ivory Coast]
A Sangare1, M Cowpli-Boni, I Sanogo
1Service d'Hématologie, C.H.U. de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Abstract:
The authors report 6 cases of hereditary elliptocytosis during a screening in one thousand (1,000) black persons. The analysis of these cases of elliptocytosis allow to draw the following conclusions: the frequency of the hereditary elliptocytosis varies between 0.6 to 1 per cent in Ivory Coast, the functional and structural analysis of spectrin show a high global frequency of the elliptocytosis of Model I in relation with an abnormally of alpha I domain of spectrin, all the cases detected don't give any clinical trouble.
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