(1) The incidence of sickling among 966 people belonging to the Eti-Turk community in southern Turkey was found to be 16.8 per cent.

(2) Among the Allewits living in Lebanon—who are considered to have the same racial background as the Eti-Turks—the incidence of sickling was only 4 per cent.

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© 1961 by American Society of Hematology, Inc.
1961
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