Prevalence of Deletional Alpha Thalassemia and Sickle Gene in a Tribal Dominated Malaria Endemic Area of Eastern India

Table 1

Demographic features of study subjects with allelic frequency of different hemoglobinopathies.

	Sahara	Kandha (Kutia)	Oraon	Gond	Kuda (Mirdhas)
Number (%)	252 (42.4%)	178 (30.0%)	12 (2.0%)	58 (9.8%)	94 (15.8%)
District	Bargarh and Kalahandi	Kalahandi	Kalahandi	Bargarh	Bargarh
Age (Years)	21.6±18.3	18.7±18.0	20.02±13.5	27.9±21.7	22.5±19.2
Sex
Male	118	96	8	26	44
Female	134	82	4	32	50
𝛽^S allele frequency	0.08	0.07	0	0.17	0.05
𝛽^T allele frequency	0	0.03	0	0	0
𝛼^−3.7 allele frequency	0.3	0.41	0.25	0.28	0.28
𝛼^−4.2 allele frequency	0.06	0.03	0	0	0.04

𝛽^S: sickle gene mutation; 𝛽^T: 𝛽 thalassemia gene mutation.