Fetal globin gene repressors as drug targets for molecular therapies to treat the β-globinopathies.

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The human β-globin locus is comprised of embryonic, fetal, and adult globin genes that are expressed in a developmental stage-specific manner. Mutations in the globin locus give rise to the β-globinopathies, β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease, which begin to manifest symptoms around the time of birth. Although the fetal globin genes are autonomously silenced in adult-stage erythroid cells, mutations lying both...

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