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Sickle cell leg ulcers: associations with haemolysis and SNPs in Klotho, TEK and genes of the TGF-beta/BMP pathway.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jun 2006
Nolan Vikki G, Adewoye Adeboye, Baldwin Clinton, Wang Ling, Ma Qianli, Wyszynski Diego F, Farrell John J, Sebastiani Paola, Farrer Lindsay A, Steinberg Martin H
Abstract excerpt
Cutaneous leg ulcers are common in sickle cell anaemia and their risk might be genetically determined. Sickle cell anaemia patients were studied to examine the relationship of leg ulcers with haemolysis and with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes that could affect sickle vasoocclusion. Leg ulcer patients had lower haemoglobin levels and higher levels of lactate dehydrogenase, bilirubin,...
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