“…We also tried to determine whether the formulas described in the literature are effective for detecting α thalassemia carriers among a homogenous population of women of childbearing age [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. Some of these formulas were also analyzed in recent papers [ 31 , 32 ].…”