supported by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.ZDKJ2021037);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2021M691466);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.8220061871).
Objective:To evaluate the value of next-generation sequencing(NGS)in the prevention and management of thalassemia.Methods:A systematic search was performed in eight databases including China Biomedical Literature Data...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 81370261);the Committee of Health and Family Planning in Sichuan Province(grant number 17PJ521).
The incidence of haemoglobinopathy is high in China,especially south of the Yangtze River.However,the exact status of haemoglobinopathy in Sichuan is unknown.To carry out a detailed research of haemoglobinopathy in in...
Background: Worldwide thalassemia poses a serious public health problem due to the high prevalence. Globally, 15 million people are suffering from clinically thalassemic disorders. Objective: ...
Thalassaemia major(TM) and Friedreich's ataxia(FA) are autosomal recessive inherited diseases related to the proteins haemoglobin and frataxin respectively. In both diseases abnormalities in iron metabolism is the mai...
According to global annual estimates hunger/malnutrition is the major cause of death(36 of 62 million). Cardiovascular diseases and cancer(5.44 of 13.43 million) are the major causes of death in developed countries, w...
Endocrine dysfunction in thalassaemia is amongst the most common complication and is principally attributed to excessive iron overload and suboptimal chelation. The prevalence is quite high particularly in multiethnic...
Haemoglobinopathies are group of diseases characterized by abnormalities both quantitative and qualitative in the synthesis of haemoglobin. Haemoglobinopathies consist of sickle cell anaemia (SCA), thalassaemia (βT) ...