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Sickle Cell Disease

2012-05-01

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In the United States, sickle cell trait is carried by 7% to 8% of people of African ancestry, and the sickle hemoglobinopathies are estimated to affect 90,000 to 100,000 people.After completing this article, readers should be able to:The World Health Organization estimates that 7% of the world's population carries a hemoglobin (Hgb) mutation and that 300,000 to 500,000 children are born each year with severe hemog...

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Literature Corpus work: 5686c6e1-058a-5874-8732-77900d9c45a9
DOI: 10.1542/pir.33.5.195

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