The hypothesis of this study is that cord blood banks containing cryopreserved pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells from African-American and Asian-American newborns will increse the opportunity to consider bone marrow transplantation in young patients with sickle cell anemia and E-beta thalassemia.
The specific aim i s to perform HLA typing on children with these conditions as well as the siblings of these patients. HLA typing will be used to determine the chance of finding a suitable 6/6 match among a sibling or family member as opposed to a 4-6/6 match in the stored cord blood samples in the National Marrow Donor Program.
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