[HTML][HTML] Determinants of severity in sickle cell disease

DC Rees, VAM Brousse, JN Brewin - Blood Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Sickle cell disease is a very variable condition, with outcomes ranging from death in
childhood to living relatively symptom free into the 8 th decade. Much of this variability is …

Endocrinopathies in Hemoglobinopathies: What Is the Role of Iron?

P Evangelidis, TM Venou, B Fani, E Vlachaki… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hemoglobinopathies, including β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease (SCD), are common
genetic blood disorders. Endocrine disorders are frequent manifestations of organ damage …

Sickle cell disease landscape and challenges in the EU: the ERN-EuroBloodNet perspective

MMM Pereira, R Colombatti, F Alvarez… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Sickle cell disease is a hereditary multiorgan disease that is considered rare in the EU. In
2017, the Rare Diseases Plan was implemented within the EU and 24 European Reference …

Impact of α-Globin Gene Expression and α-Globin Modifiers on the Phenotype of β-Thalassemia and Other Hemoglobinopathies: Implications for Patient Management

J Traeger-Synodinos, C Vrettou, C Sofocleous… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this short review, we presented and discussed studies on the expression of globin genes
in β-thalassemia, focusing on the impact of α-globin gene expression and α-globin modifiers …

Global globin network consensus paper: classification and stratified roadmaps for improved thalassaemia care and prevention in 32 countries

BH Halim-Fikri, CW Lederer, AA Baig… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Global Globin Network (GGN) is a project-wide initiative of the Human Variome/Global
Variome Project (HVP) focusing on haemoglobinopathies to build the capacity for genomic …

Global perspectives on cellular therapy for children with sickle cell disease

TD John, R Namazzi, L Chirande… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Translation of curative cellular based therapies for SCD should be prioritized to LMICs
where the disease burden and cost of noncurative treatments is high, and long-term quality …

Learning from conect4children: A Collaborative Approach towards Standardisation of Disease-Specific Paediatric Research Data

A Sen, V Hedley, E Degraeuwe, S Hirschfeld, R Cornet… - Data, 2024 - mdpi.com
The conect4children (c4c) initiative was established to facilitate the development of new
drugs and other therapies for paediatric patients. It is widely recognised that there are not …

Progress and harmonization of gene editing to treat human diseases: Proceeding of COST Action CA21113 GenE-HumDi

A Cavazza, A Hendel, RO Bak, P Rio, M Güell… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is an intergovernmental
organization dedicated to funding and coordinating scientific and technological research in …

Global Globin Network and adopting genomic variant database requirements for thalassemia

H Halim-Fikri, NN Zulkipli, H Alauddin, C Bento… - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Thalassemia is one of the most prevalent monogenic disorders in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs). There are an estimated 270 million carriers of hemoglobinopathies …

Insights in thalassemia: from genomics to clinical practice

CLT Silao, ZA Latiff, P Kountouris, BA Zilfalil - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Thalassemia, a common inherited autosomal recessive disorder, is characterized by
inefficient or absent hemoglobin synthesis, resulting in various severities of anemia (1) …