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Genetic etiologies for phenotypic diversity in sickle cell anemia.
TheScientificWorldJournal - 18 Jan 2009
Steinberg Martin H
Abstract excerpt
The clinical course of patients with sickle cell anemia, a Mendelian trait, is characteristically highly variable. HbF concentration and the presence of á thalassemia are established modulators of the disease, but cannot account for all of its clinical heterogeneity. To find additional genetic modulators of disease, genotype-phenotype association studies, where single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate...
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