[Sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta thalassaemia, caused by lesions that affect the HBB (beta globin gene), form the most common human genetic disorders world-wide, and represent a major public health problem.]. 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