Sickle cell disease: challenges and progress
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Sickle cell disease: challenges and progress.
Despite a long history of knowing the genetic cause of sickle cell disease (SCD), progress in developing treatments to prevent painful vaso-occlusive crises and the other myriad of associated symptoms has, until recently, been disappointingly slow. As long ago as 1949, Pauling et al described sickle cell anemia as a molecular disease, with two other groups convincingly describing it as an inher...
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عنوان ژورنال: Blood
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0006-4971,1528-0020
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-12-674606