Table 5.
Frequency of β-thalassemia trait in school children in Mumbai and Delhi according to caste/religion
| Group | Mumbai |
Delhi |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No./Total | % | No./Total | % | |
| Artisan | 13/506 | 2.6 | 1/23 | 4.3 |
| Baniya | 4/133 | 3.0 | 10/369 | 2.7 |
| Bhandari | 0/145 | 0 | 0/12 | 0 |
| Bhatia | 4/68 | 5.9 | 1/32 | 3.1 |
| Bhayya | 1/66 | 1.5 | 0/18 | 0 |
| Bohri | 3/76 | 4.0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| Brahmin | 15/764 | 2.0 | 64/1201 | 5.3 |
| Buddhist | 8/222 | 3.6 | 1/8 | 1.3 |
| Irani | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jain | 16/488 | 3.3 | 4/83 | 4.8 |
| Jath | 0/20 | 0 | 4/58 | 6.9 |
| Kayastha | 3/88 | 3.4 | 5/94 | 5.3 |
| Khatri | 5/73 | 6.9 | 19/496 | 3.8 |
| Kunbi | 2/91 | 2.2 | 0/4 | 0 |
| Lohana | 9/162 | 5.6 | 0/12 | 0 |
| Maratha | 23/1100 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Parsee | 0/45 | 0 | 0/2 | 0 |
| Protestant | 2/49 | 4.1 | 0/3 | 0 |
| Roman Catholic | 2/207 | 1.0 | 2/34 | 5.9 |
| Scheduled Caste | 11/214 | 5.1 | 7/290 | 2.4 |
| Shiya | 5/180 | 2.8 | 0/4 | 0 |
| Sikh | 4/108 | 3.7 | 12/260 | 4.6 |
| Sunni | 7/282 | 2.5 | 1/60 | 1.7 |
| Others/ Not known | 15/594 | 2.5 | 130/2344 | 5.5 |
| Total | 5682 | 5408 | ||