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Phenotype/genotype relationships in sickle cell disease: a pilot twin study.
Clinical and laboratory haematology - 1 Dec 2005
Weatherall M W, Higgs D R, Weiss H, Weatherall D J, Serjeant G R
Abstract excerpt
The roles of genetic and non-genetic factors in the haematology, growth and clinical features of sickle cell disease have been studied in nine identical twin pairs (six homozygous sickle cell disease, three sickle cell-haemoglobin C disease). A comparison group of 350 age-gender matched sibling pairs, selected to have an age difference of <5 years, was used for assessing the concordance of numerical data....
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