Abstract
Genetics and genomic medicine in Cuba.
Highlights
The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago formed by more than 1600 islands, islets and keys, with the Island of Cuba being the greater one
The services are implemented through a community genetics network that currently has 168 municipal genetics services, 15 provincial services and the National Center of Medical Genetics (NCMG) in Havana
According to data from the Institute of Hematology and Immunology of the Ministry of Public Health, approximately 5000 people throughout the country suffer from sickle cell anemia
Summary
The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago formed by more than 1600 islands, islets and keys, with the Island of Cuba being the greater one. Its geographic location includes 19°490 and 23°160N and 74°080 and 84°570W, from the Greenwich meridian; that places it north of the Caribbean Sea and south of the Tropic of Cancer, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico (National Office of Statistic and Information, ONEI, www.one.cu/cuba2010.htm). Its population is settled in the islands of Cuba and the Youth Island, the rest of the archipelago is almost depopulated with the exception of tourist centers in some keys. The country has a population of 11,239,004, of which more than 75% live in urban areas The infant mortality rate was 4.3 per thousand live births at the end of 2016, which places the island in the vanguard of America and among the first 20 nations of the world.
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