Study of Anemia Risk of Children in Wasit Governorate /Iraq

Abstract

Anemia is one of the most common diseases that children suffer from in the world and in Iraq in particular, are the blood disorders characterized by reduction in the number of circulating red blood cell, the amount of hemoglobin or the volume of packed red cells in blood. Chromosomal aberrations have often been reported from the bone marrow as well as cultured lymphocyte of anemia patients. The aim of study finds out the chromosomal changes of anemia patients involved in the disorder, then to study the chromosomal analysis for patients. The distribution of anemia patients according to the gender did not show any significant differences between male and female patients. The results showed that there is family history of anemia Cytogenetic analyses, specifically chromosomal analysis , were carried out on all samples