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Genome wide association study of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell Anemia in Tanzania

PLoS ONE, Volume 9, No. 11, Article e111464, Year 2014

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.
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Tanzania