From Mendel to a Mendelian disorder: towards a cure for sickle cell disease

Nat Rev Genet. 2022 Jul;23(7):389-390. doi: 10.1038/s41576-022-00498-1.

Julie Makani^{1

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7}, Francis Collins⁸, Lucio Luzzatto^{9

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¹ Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. jmakani@blood.ac.tz.
² Sickle Cell Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, School of Medicine, MUHAS, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. jmakani@blood.ac.tz.
³ Sickle Pan-African Consortium (SPARCO) Clinical Coordinating Centre, SickleInAfrica, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. jmakani@blood.ac.tz.
⁴ Sickle Cell Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, School of Medicine, MUHAS, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
⁵ Sickle Pan-African Consortium (SPARCO) Clinical Coordinating Centre, SickleInAfrica, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
⁷ Tanzania Society of Human Genetics, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
⁸ National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA.
⁹ Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
¹⁰ University of Florence, Firenze, Italy.

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