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Gene-centric association study of acute chest syndrome and painful crisis in sickle cell disease patients.
Blood - 18 Jul 2013
Galarneau Geneviève, Coady Sean, Garrett Melanie E, Jeffries Neal, Puggal Mona, Paltoo Dina, Soldano Karen, Guasch Antonio, Ashley-Koch Allison E, Telen Marilyn J, Kutlar Abdullah, Lettre Guillaume, Papanicolaou George J
Abstract excerpt
Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) present with a wide range of clinical complications. Understanding this clinical heterogeneity offers the prospects to tailor the right treatments to the right patients and also guide the development of novel therapies. Several environmental (eg, nutrition) and nonenvironmental (eg, fetal hemoglobin levels, α-thalassemia status) factors are known to modify SCD severity. To...
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