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Polymorphisms near a chromosome 6q QTL area are associated with modulation of fetal hemoglobin levels in sickle cell anemia.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Feb 2004
Wyszynski D F, Baldwin C T, Cleves M A, Amirault Y, Nolan V G, Farrell J J, Bisbee A, Kutlar A, Farrer L A, Steinberg M H
Abstract excerpt
In patients with sickle cell anemia, fetal hemoglobin (HbF) concentrations vary by 2 orders of magnitude. This variance may be a result of heterogeneity in gene regulatory elements; accordingly, we searched for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that might identify this variation. More than 180 SNPs were studied in 38 genes in 280 sickle cell anemia patients. The strongest association with HbF was found with...
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