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Genetics of fetal hemoglobin in tribal Indian patients with sickle cell anemia.
Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine - 1 Jun 2015
Bhanushali Aparna A, Patra Pradip K, Pradhan Smarnika, Khanka Suraj S, Singh Sujata, Das Bibhu R
Abstract excerpt
India tops the list of countries with sickle cell disease (SCD) with an estimated 44,000 live births in 2010 and a prevalence of 10%-33%. In the present study, the first from India, we have investigated the effect of genetic variants in the BCL11A, the HMIP (HBS1L-MYB intergenic polymorphism) locus, in addition to the HBB locus, which are known to be associated with fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels, a major...
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