Author(s): Alberts NM; Gilbert A; Kang G; Okhomina VI; Flynn JS; Hodges J; Hankins JS; Klosky JL;

Pain is a primary symptom of sickle cell disease (SCD) and is often severe and chronic. To treat SCD-related pain, proper assessment of SCD pain among youth, including the degree of concordance or agreement between youth and caregiver reports of pain, is es ...

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Author(s): Rampersaud E; Kang G; Palmer LE; Rashkin SR; Wang S; Bi W; Alberts NM; Anghelescu D; Barton M; Birch K; Boulos N; Brandow AM; Brooke RJ; Cha ...

Individuals with monogenic disorders can experience variable phenotypes that are influenced by genetic variation. To investigate this in sickle cell disease (SCD), we performed whole-genome sequenc ...

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Author(s): Alberts NM, Kang G, Li C, Richardson PA, Hodges J, Hankins JS, Klosky JL

OBJECTIVES: Pain is prevalent among youth with sickle cell disease (SCD). However, previous research has been limited by small sample sizes, and lacked examinations of developmental differences in pain - which are critical to minimizing the development of c ...

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