The book provides an easy & up-to-date account of divergent vital topic in a simple, lucid & concise manner. The text of the book has been illustrated with simplified, well- labeled, colored diagrams and relevant pictures to make the subject easy to understand and interesting to read for the students and researchers. Highlights of the book: Exhaustive subject matter well supported with the relevant colored photographs, contains introduction to haemoglobinopathy, types of thalassemia, reviews of techniques used for identification of thalassemic mutations, gel electrophoresis, process of ARMS- PCR, photographs of gel electrophoresis & the study results of frequency distribution of beta- thalassemia traits in different communities of Gujarati population.