Incidence of Alpha-Globin Gene Defect in the Lebanese Population: A Pilot Study

Table 1

The type and frequency of α-gene mutations detected by ethnicity.

	Muslim	Christian	Druze
Total (%)	136 (68%)	57 (25.8%)	7 (3.5%)
Mutations (%)	13 (9.6%)	3 (5.3%)	0 (0%)
	10 (77%)	2 (67%)	—
α2 IVS1 [−5nt]	3 (23%)	1 (33%)	—