Sickle cell anaemia in Cameroon : co-inheritance of α-thalassemia, HBB gene haplotypes, clinical & haematological characterisations

Background: Although sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is genetically characterised by a single point mutation, patients can manifest varying degrees of clinical severity due to various genetic modulators that affect the phenotype of this disease. The co-inheritance of alpha-thalassemia (α-thalassemia) has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rumaney, Maryam
Other Authors: Wonkam, Ambroise
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15697