Genome wide association study of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) is an important modulator of sickle cell disease (SCD). HbF has previously been shown to be affected by variants at three loci on chromosomes 2, 6 and 11, but it is likely that additional loci remain to be discovered. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a genome-wid...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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