Article
Haplotypes of the beta-globin gene as prognostic factors in sickle-cell disease.
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit - 1 Nov 1999
el-Hazmi M A, Warsy A S, Bashir N, Beshlawi A, Hussain I R, Temtamy S, Qubaili F
Abstract excerpt
We collaborated with researchers from Egypt, Syrian Arab Republic and Jordan in a study of patients with sickle-cell disease from those countries, and from various parts of Saudi Arabia, in order to investigate the influence of genetics on the clinical presentation of the disease, and to attempt to determine the origin of the sickle-cell gene in Arabs. Our results suggest that beta-globin gene haplotypes...
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