[While the addition of the wild-type beta-globin gene is naturally suited for treating beta-thalassemia, several alternatives have been proposed for the treatment of sickle cell disease, using either gamma or mutant beta-globin gene addition, trans-splicing or RNA interference.]. 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