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Epigenetic Insights and Potential Modifiers as Therapeutic Targets in β-Thalassemia.
Biomolecules - 18 May 2021
Zakaria Nur Atikah, Islam Md Asiful, Abdullah Wan Zaidah, Bahar Rosnah, Mohamed Yusoff Abdul Aziz, Abdul Wahab Ridhwan, Shamsuddin Shaharum, Johan Muhammad Farid
Abstract excerpt
Thalassemia, an inherited quantitative globin disorder, consists of two types, α- and β-thalassemia. β-thalassemia is a heterogeneous disease that can be asymptomatic, mild, or even severe. Considerable research has focused on investigating its underlying etiology. These studies found that DNA hypomethylation in the β-globin gene cluster is significantly related to fetal hemoglobin (HbF) elevation. Histone...
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