Here, the authors perform a genome-wide association study of fetal haemoglobin (HbF) levels in Africans with sickle cell disease replicating known loci, identifing 14 candidate loci, and highlighting FLT1’s role in hypoxia-associated HbF induction.
- Ambroise Wonkam
- Kevin Esoh
- Stylianos E. Antonarakis