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Recent progress in understanding and manipulating haemoglobin switching for the haemoglobinopathies
28 Nov 2017
Abstract excerpt
The major β-haemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia, represent the most common monogenic disorders worldwide and a steadily increasing global disease burden. Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the only curative therapy, is only applied to a small minority of patients. Common clinical management strategies act mainly downstream of the root causes of disease. The observation...
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