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Association of polymorphisms of IGF1R and genes in the transforming growth factor- beta /bone morphogenetic protein pathway with bacteremia in sickle cell anemia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 2006
Adewoye Adeboye H, Nolan Vikki G, Ma Qianli, Baldwin Clinton, Wyszynski Diego F, Farrell John J, Farrer Lindsay A, Steinberg Martin H
Abstract excerpt
Infection and bacteremia are common in sickle cell disease. We hypothesized that, consistent with evidence for the genetic modulation of other disease complications, the risk of developing bacteremia might also be genetically modulated. Accordingly, we studied the association of single nucleotide...
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