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Osman Aden Abdulle

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Ethnicity
  
Somali

Parents
  
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar

Role
  
Physician

Name
  
Osman Abdulle

Occupation
  
geneticist, physician


Osman Aden Abdulle (Somali: Cismaan Aaden Cabdulle, Arabic: عثمان عدن عبد الله‎‎) is a prominent Somali physician and geneticist.

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Biography

Osman is the son of Somalia's first president Aden Abdulle Osman Daar. He is the director of the Blood Transfusion Service in Mogadishu, and is the World Health Organization's representative in Somalia. In 1987, he and his colleagues jointly discovered a new Rh gene complex producing the rare Cx (Rh9) antigen in the Somali population.

Work

  • Haemophilia in Somalia (1989)
  • Distribution of blood groups in the East African Somali population (1987)
  • References

    Osman Aden Abdulle Wikipedia