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Sickle cell disease patients in eastern province of Saudi Arabia suffer less severe acute chest syndrome than patients with African haplotypes
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Genetic studies suggest that the sickle cell mutation has arisen on at least four separate occasions in Africa and as a fifth independent mutation in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia or India. The pathophysiology of sickle cell disease (SCD) is essentially similar in t...
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Medknow Publications
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19727367 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.36550 |