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SUBMITTER: Alter BP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3720816 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alter Blanche P BP Rosenberg Philip S PS Day Thomas T Menzel Stephan S Giri Neelam N Savage Sharon A SA Thein Swee Lay SL
British journal of haematology 20130529 4
Patients with inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) have 'stress erythropoiesis', with anaemia, macrocytosis, increased fetal haemoglobin (Hb F) and high erythropoietin levels. In haemoglobinopathies, Hb F levels are regulated by 3 quantitative trait loci, HBS1L-MYB, BCL11A and Xmn1-HBG2. In our study of 97 patients with an IBMFS, increased Hb F was associated with young age, male gender, anaemia, high erythropoietin levels, and alternative alleles in Xmn1-HBG2 [adjusted P = 0·04 for t ...[more]