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Elevating fetal hemoglobin: recently discovered regulators and mechanisms
10 May 2024
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ABSTRACT: It has been known for over half a century that throughout ontogeny, humans produce different forms of hemoglobin, a tetramer of α- and β-like hemoglobin chains. The switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin occurs around the time of birth when erythropoiesis shifts from the fetal liver to the bone marrow. Naturally, diseases caused by defective adult β-globin genes, such as sickle cell disease and...
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