Research Article
Prevalence of Deletional Alpha Thalassemia and Sickle Gene in a Tribal Dominated Malaria Endemic Area of Eastern India
Table 2
Prevalence of alpha thalassemia allele, sickle allele, and
thalassemia allele in different age groups in tribal population.
| Age wise distribution of subjects (%) | Sickle allele | thalassemia allele (%) |
Alpha thalassemia alleles (%) | Heterozygous state (%) | Homozygous state (%) |
| 1–15 years 310 (52.2%) | 22 (7.1) | 12 (3.9) | 14 (4.5) | 148 (47.7) | >15–30 years 126 (21.2%) | 22 (17.5) | 4 (3.2) | 4 (3.2) | 62 (49.2) | >30–45 years 82 (13.8%) | 10 (12.2) | 2 (2.4) | 2 (2.4) | 52 (63.4) | >45 years 76 (12.8%) | 6 (7.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 40 (52.6) |
| Total | 60 (10.1) | 18 (3.03) | 20 (3.37) | 302 (50.8) |
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