HBA2, hemoglobin subunit alpha 2, 3040

N. diseases: 182; N. variants: 34
Disease: Acute Chest Syndrome ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0742343
Disease: Acute Chest Syndrome
Acute Chest Syndrome 		0.010 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Compared with children with longer allele lengths, children with 2 shorter alleles (4%; ≤ 25 repeats) had lower rates of hospitalization for ACS (incidence rate ratio 0.28, 95% confidence interval, 0.10-0.81), after adjusting for sex, age, asthma, percentage of fetal hemoglobin, and α-globin gene deletion. 22966170 2012