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Evolving locally appropriate models of care for indian sickle cell disease.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Apr 2016
Serjeant Graham R
Abstract excerpt
The sickle cell gene in India represents a separate occurrence of the HbS mutations from those in Africa. Sickle cell disease in India occurs against different genetic and environmental backgrounds from those seen in African patients and there is evidence of clinical differences between the populations. Knowledge of the clinical features of African disease was drawn from the Jamaican Cohort Study, based on...
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