Hemoglobin S in Eti-Turks and the Allewits in Lebanon.

I ‘ ‘ HAS been known for sonic tulle that the Eti-Turks pOSSCSS tile iligheSt incidence of sickling in the white race.’ Several previous papers have diScussed the characteristics of these people and have described the incidence of abnormal genes responsible for thalassemia and abnormal hemoglohins.25 It was also pointed out in some of these i tpers that tile Eti-Turks and the Allewits of Syria and Lebanon may have the same racial background.24 The prirpose of this brief note is to draw attention to the occurrence of sickhug among the Allewits living in Lebanon and also to give a better picture of the incidence of sickling among Eti-Turks living in southern Turkey.