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Clinical Aspects of Sickle Cell Disease
Hemoglobinopathies are the most common genetic diseases in humans. In sickle cell disease (SCD), a single nucleotide substitution (GTG for GAG, rs334 ) in the sixth codon of the β-globin gene produces an abnormal sickle hemoglobin (HbS). Due to a…