Contributors
Kenneth I. Ataga:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-9982
Role: InvestigationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Victor R. Gordeuk: Role: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Irene Agodoa: Role: ConceptualizationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Jennifer A. Colby: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Kimberly Gittings: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draft
Isabel E. Allen: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Philippe Connes: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
3
April
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0229959
Affiliations
[1
]
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America
[2
]
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States
of America
[3
]
GBT, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America
[4
]
Xcenda LLC, Palm Harbor, FL, United States of America
[5
]
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United
States of America
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FRANCE
Author notes
Competing Interests: K.I.A. is an advisory board member for GBT, Novartis, and Bioverativ and has served
as a consultant for Modus Therapeutics. V.R.G. has served as a consultant for GBT
and CSL Behring. I.A. is a current employee and stockholder of GBT. J.A.C. and K.G.
are current employees of Xcenda, LLC, an AmerisourceBergen company. I.E.A. is a current
employee of University of California, San Francisco and has served as a consultant
for GBT. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and
materials.
[¤a]
Current address: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United
States of America
[¤b]
Current address: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL,
United States of America
[¤c]
Current address: GBT, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America
[¤d]
Current address: Xcenda, LLC, Palm Harbor, FL, United States of America
[¤e]
Current address: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-28851
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229959
PMC ID: 7122773
PubMed ID: 32243480
SO-VID: 1f5102ec-766c-44ea-a45a-9d0a2929c556
Copyright © © 2020 Ataga et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 15
October
2019
Date
accepted
: 17
February
2020
Page count
Figures: 7,
Tables: 1,
Pages: 17
Funding
This study was funded by GBT and Xcenda LLC conducted the study. One author is a GBT
employee and holds equity in GBT and two authors are employed by Xcenda LLC; the specific
roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. All
authors were involved in the preparation and editing of the manuscript, as well as
the decision to publish.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Proteins
Subject:
Hemoglobin
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Subject:
Statistical Methods
Subject:
Metaanalysis
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Mathematics
Subject:
Statistics
Subject:
Statistical Methods
Subject:
Metaanalysis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Clinical Genetics
Subject:
Genetic Diseases
Subject:
Autosomal Recessive Diseases
Subject:
Sickle Cell Disease
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Hematology
Subject:
Hemoglobinopathies
Subject:
Sickle Cell Disease
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Neurology
Subject:
Cerebrovascular Diseases
Subject:
Stroke
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Vascular Medicine
Subject:
Stroke
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Hematology
Subject:
Anemia
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pediatrics
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nephrology
Subject:
Microalbuminuria
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Database and Informatics Methods
Subject:
Database Searching
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