Author/Authors :
Karami, Hossien mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران , Kosaryan, Mehroush mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران , Aliasgharian, Ali mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران , Abbaskhanian, Ali mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران , Sharifian, Rayka mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران , Taghipour, Mehrdad mazandaran university of medical sciences - Thalassemia Research Center, ايران
Abstract :
While thalassemia major (TM) used to be a prevalent genetic disease in the past, however, Phenylketonuria (PKU) is quite rare in spite of consanquiness marriage rate of about 40% in the region. Preventive efforts for TM started 20 years ago but neonatal screening for PKU started since 2007. This is the first report of co-existence of thalassemia and PKU in Middle East and in consideration of the prevalence of each genes, this chance association is a very unusual event. We report a case of having PKU and TM.
