Fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia: Saudi patients from the Southwestern province have similar HBB haplotypes but higher HbF levels than African Americans

Am J Hematol. 2011 Jul;86(7):612-4. doi: 10.1002/ajh.22032. Epub 2011 May 31.

Authors

Abdulrahman Alsultan¹, Nadia Solovieff, Aamer Aleem, Farjah H AlGahtani, Ali Al-Shehri, Mohamed Elfaki Osman, Kadijah Kurban, Hasan Bahakim, Abdul Kareem Al-Momen, Clinton T Baldwin, David H K Chui, Martin H Steinberg

Affiliation

¹ Sickle Cell Disease Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. aalsultan@gmail.com

PMID: 21630302
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.22032

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Anemia, Sickle Cell / epidemiology
Anemia, Sickle Cell / genetics*
Black or African American
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Fetal Hemoglobin / genetics*
Haplotypes
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
Quantitative Trait Loci*
Saudi Arabia / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Fetal Hemoglobin