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Impact of VEGFA -583C > T polymorphism on serum VEGF levels and the susceptibility to acute chest syndrome in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Dec 2014
Redha Noor A, Mahdi Najat, Al-Habboubi Hebah H, Almawi Wassim Y
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the association of VEGFA -583C > T on VEGF serum levels and acute chest syndrome (ACS) in 351 pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), of whom 90 had ACS, and 261 were ACS-free controls. Significant differences in -583C > T minor allele and genotype frequencies were seen between ACS cases and controls, evidenced by enrichment of -583T/T genotypes in patients with ACS, which were linked...
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