Recommended counseling and testing for Special Populations
Ethnicity (patient and/or partner) Disorder and Tests
Asian Thalassemia CBC, RBC indices, Hgb elecrophoresis (if anemic and normal iron indices)
For Southeast Asians with low mean corpuscular volume and normal iron studies: DNA test - Alpha-globin genes

Source: Solomon, et, al., "The Clinical content of preconception care:genetics and genomics." AJOG, Supplement to December, 2008. S340-S344