[If future carefully controlled studies confirm the hypothesis of influence of hypermelanotic or hypomelanotic skin status of the individual patients on severity in phenotypic expression of homozygous SCD, genetic and pharmacological interventions aimed at regulation of melanin production may play a role in alleviating the severity in phenotypic expression of SCD in affected patients.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE