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  2. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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    The mutation which causes sickle cell disease results in an abnormal hemoglobin known as hemoglobin S (HbS), which replaces HbA in adults. [20] The human genome contains a pair of genes for β-globin; in people with sickle cell disease, both genes are affected and the erythropoietic cells in the bone marrow will only create HbS.

  3. Woman to Woman: Causes, symptoms and treatments of sickle ...

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    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder impacting 100,000 people in the U.S., disproportionately people of color. Dr. Lila Van Doren, assistant professor of ...

  4. FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first ... - AOL

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    In patients with sickle cell disease, red blood cells, which are usually disk-shaped, take on a crescent or sickle shape. This change can cause cells to clump together, leading to clots and ...

  5. NHS to offer 'groundbreaking' sickle cell gene therapy - AOL

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    A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England. ... Sickle cell disease can be life-threatening and cause recurring ...

  6. Hemoglobin Lepore syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Sickle cell-Hb Lepore Boston syndrome is a type of sickle cell disease (HbS) that differs from homozygous sickle cell disease where both parents carry sickle hemoglobin. In this variant one parent has the sickle cell hemoglobin the second parent has Hb Lepore Boston, the only one of the three variants described in association with HbS. [7]

  7. List of gene therapies - Wikipedia

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    Gendicine: treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; Idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma): treatment for multiple myeloma [12] Lovotibeglogene autotemcel (Lyfgenia): treatment for sickle cell disease. [11] Nadofaragene firadenovec (Adstiladrin): treatment for bladder cancer [13] Obecabtagene autoleucel (Aucatzyl): treatment of acute ...

  8. Hemoglobin C - Wikipedia

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    HbC can combine with other abnormal hemoglobins and cause serious hemoglobinopathies. Individuals with sickle cell–hemoglobin C (HbSC), have inherited the gene for sickle cell disease (HbS) from one parent and the gene for hemoglobin C disease (HbC) from the other parent. Since HbC does not polymerize as readily as HbS, there is less sickling ...

  9. For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life ... - AOL

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    Advocates for sickle cell patients said investment in data collection to track the disease is also important. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that some 100,000 ...

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