Genome Wide Association Study of Fetal Hemoglobin in Sickle Cell Anemia in Tanzania

• Siana Nkya Mtatiro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Siana Nkya Mtatiro, Tarjinder Singh

  * E-mail: siana.nkya@muhimbili-wellcome.org

  Affiliations Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, Department of Biological Sciences, Dar es Salaam University College of Education, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

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• Tarjinder Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Siana Nkya Mtatiro, Tarjinder Singh

  Affiliation Department of Human genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Helen Rooks,

  Affiliation King’s College London, Department of Molecular Haematology, Division of Cancer Studies, London, United Kingdom

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• Josephine Mgaya,

  Affiliation Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

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• Harvest Mariki,

  Affiliation Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

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• Deogratius Soka,

  Affiliation Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

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• Bruno Mmbando,

  Affiliations Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga Centre, Tanga, Tanzania

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• Evarist Msaki,

  Affiliation Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania

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• Iris Kolder,

  Affiliation Department of Human genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Swee Lay Thein,

  Affiliations King’s College London, Department of Molecular Haematology, Division of Cancer Studies, London, United Kingdom, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Haematological Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Stephan Menzel,

  Affiliation King’s College London, Department of Molecular Haematology, Division of Cancer Studies, London, United Kingdom

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• Sharon E. Cox,

  Affiliations Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, MRC International Nutrition Group, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Julie Makani ,

  ¶These authors are joint supervisors on this work

  Affiliations Muhimbili Wellcome Programme, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jeffrey C. Barrett

  ¶These authors are joint supervisors on this work

  Affiliation Department of Human genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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