Fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia: Saudi patients from the Southwestern province have similar HBB haplotypes but higher HbF levels than African Americans

MeSH terms

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Anemia, Sickle Cell / epidemiology
• Anemia, Sickle Cell / genetics*
• Black or African American
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Fetal Hemoglobin / genetics*
• Haplotypes
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
• Quantitative Trait Loci*
• Saudi Arabia / epidemiology
• United States / epidemiology