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🌟Just released! Outstanding @bloodbankguy 🎧podcast w/ Dr. Sujit Sheth. Comprehensive discussion on transfusion-dependent #thalassemia focusing on pathogenesis, terminology & role of transfusion support. Listen now for CE credit.
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Derived from the Greek word “thal” or sea🌊thalassemia known as Mediterranean anemia, is an anemia affecting 1.5% of the world population along the “thalassemia belt” extending from the Mediterranean, the Middle East, India, SoutheastAsia, up to China. Like SCD, thalassemias are:
Thalassemias are also hereditary and may offer protection against malaria. However, unlike #sicklecelldisease which results in qualitative Hb defects, thalassemia causes a quantitative defects in either Hb α or β chains causing both ineffective erythropoiesis and anemia. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic...
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Wonderful to have our work on using genome editing in single cells to better understand hemoglobin switching published in @NatureComms today. Terrific work by Yong Shen, @JeffreyVerboon, and colleagues from the @JianXuLab and Orkin labs: go.nature.com/3k3OanG
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13 years ago, we had identified BCL11A as a key regulator of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) expression: science.sciencemag.org/content/322/59…

But how was it acting to silence HbF? (1/n)
10 years ago we characterized a number of HPFH and delta-beta-thalassemia deletions and showed that there may be roles for long-range elements in the silencing of HbF: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

But definitive perturbations were not done then (2/n)
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Fil FR/EN sur l'état des recherches sur notre hypothèse concernant la possible protection des bêta thalassemiques mineurs face au COVID-19

Thread FR/EN concerning our hypothesis above the possible protection of beta-thalassemia minor against COVID-19

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Deux lettres à l'éditeur décrivent des visions opposés sur des séries de 162 et 14 patients.

Two letters to editors describe opposite POV on small sample of 162 and 14 patients.

162 patients: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

14 patients:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
La série de 162 patients précise l'hypothèse physiopathologique tout en confirmant la probabilité de notre hypothèse.

The serie of 162 patients precises the physiopathological hypothesis, and confirms the hypothesis probability.
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