List of works - Julie Makani

: a genetic model of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease

A Massive Extradural Hematoma in Sickle Cell Disease and the Importance of Rapid Neuroimaging

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

A common molecular signature of patients with sickle cell disease revealed by microarray meta-analysis and a genome-wide association study

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

A pilot study of a non-invasive oral nitrate stable isotopic method suggests that arginine and citrulline supplementation increases whole-body NO production in Tanzanian children with sickle cell disease.

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

A qualitative study on aspects of consent for genomic research in communities with low literacy

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

A robust mass spectrometry method for rapid profiling of erythrocyte ghost membrane proteomes

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

A ten year review of the sickle cell program in Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania

scholarly article by Julie Makani et al published 2018 in BMC hematology

Addressing gaps in international blood availability and transfusion safety in low- and middle-income countries: a NHLBI workshop.

scientific article

Admission diagnosis of cerebral malaria in adults in an endemic area of Tanzania: implications and clinical description

scientific article published on May 2003

Alteration of lymphocyte phenotype and function in sickle cell anemia: Implications for vaccine responses

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

An observational study of children with sickle cell disease in Kilifi, Kenya

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Anaemia and iron deficiency in heart failure: epidemiological gaps, diagnostic challenges and therapeutic barriers in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in September 2017

Anemia at the initiation of tuberculosis therapy is associated with delayed sputum conversion among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article

Artemisinin Therapy for Malaria in Hemoglobinopathies: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Audit of clinical-laboratory practices in haematology and blood transfusion at Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania

scientific article published on October 2012

Bacteraemia in Kenyan children with sickle-cell anaemia: a retrospective cohort and case-control study

scientific article published on 09 September 2009

Bacteraemia in sickle cell anaemia is associated with low haemoglobin: a report of 890 admissions to a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Cerebral Infarcts and Vasculopathy in Tanzanian Children With Sickle Cell Anemia

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Clinical utility of HCV core antigen detection and quantification using serum samples and dried blood spots in people who inject drugs in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

scientific article published on September 2017

Complications of sickle cell anaemia in children in Northwestern Tanzania

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Contemporary aetiology, clinical characteristics and prognosis of adults with heart failure observed in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: the prospective Tanzania Heart Failure (TaHeF) study

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Curative options for sickle cell disease in Africa: Approach in Tanzania

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Decreased Hepcidin Levels Are Associated with Low Steady-state Hemoglobin in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania

scientific article published in August 2018

End points for sickle cell disease clinical trials: renal and cardiopulmonary, cure, and low-resource settings

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Establishing a Multi-Country Sickle Cell Disease Registry in Africa: Ethical Considerations

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Exploring the Role of Shared Decision Making in the Consent Process for Pediatric Genomics Research in Cameroon, Tanzania, and Ghana

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

F cell numbers are associated with an X-linked genetic polymorphism and correlate with haematological parameters in patients with sickle cell disease

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Family, Community, and Health System Considerations for Reducing the Burden of Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease in Uganda Through Newborn Screening

scientific article published on 07 April 2016

Fetal Hemoglobin is Associated with Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania

scientific article published on 08 August 2017

Finding a cure for sickle cell disease

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Genetic association of fetal-hemoglobin levels in individuals with sickle cell disease in Tanzania maps to conserved regulatory elements within the MYB core enhancer

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Genetic variants at HbF-modifier loci moderate anemia and leukocytosis in sickle cell disease in Tanzania

scientific article published on 20 October 2014

Genetics of fetal hemoglobin in Tanzanian and British patients with sickle cell anemia

scientific article

Genome wide association study of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

scientific article

Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

scientific article

Global arginine bioavailability in Tanzanian sickle cell anaemia patients at steady-state: a nested case control study of deaths versus survivors

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Global genetic architecture of an erythroid quantitative trait locus, HMIP-2

scientific article

H3ABioNet, a sustainable pan-African bioinformatics network for human heredity and health in Africa

scientific article

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Tanzania

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania.

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Health policy for sickle cell disease in Africa: experience from Tanzania on interventions to reduce under-five mortality

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Heart failure in Tanzania and Sweden: Comparative characterization and prognosis in the Tanzania Heart Failure (TaHeF) study and the Swedish Heart Failure Registry (SwedeHF).

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Hematological and Genetic Predictors of Daytime Hemoglobin Saturation in Tanzanian Children with and without Sickle Cell Anemia

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

Hematology in Africa

scientific article published on April 2016

High birth prevalence of sickle cell disease in Northwestern Tanzania

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

High mortality from Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children living with sickle cell anemia on the coast of Kenya

scientific article

High prevalence of individuals with low concentration of fetal hemoglobin in F-cells in sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

scientific article published on 16 April 2016

Hydroxyurea - An Essential Medicine for Sickle Cell Disease in Africa

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Identifying genetic variants and pathways associated with extreme levels of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease in Tanzania

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Immunoglobulin G responses against falciparum malaria specific antigens are higher in children with homozygous sickle cell trait than those with normal hemoglobin

article

Inauguration of the Tanzania Society of Human Genetics: Biomedical Research in Tanzania with Emphasis on Human Genetics and Genomics

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Influence of gender norms in relation to child's quality of care: follow-up of families of children with SCD identified through NBS in Tanzania

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Limited Exchange Transfusion Can Be Very Beneficial in Sickle Cell Anemia with Acute Chest Syndrome: A Case Report from Tanzania.

scientific article

Making Hydroxyurea Affordable for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania is Essential (HASTE): how to meet major health needs at a reasonable cost

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Malaria as a cause of morbidity and mortality in children with homozygous sickle cell disease on the coast of Kenya

scientific article published on July 2009

Malaria in patients with sickle cell anemia: burden, risk factors, and outcome at the outpatient clinic and during hospitalization

scientific article

Management of sickle cell disease in the community

scientific article published on 10 March 2014

Molecular genetics research in sub-Saharan Africa: how can the international community help?

scientific article

Mortality in sickle cell anemia in Africa: a prospective cohort study in Tanzania

scientific article

Negative Epistasis between Sickle and Foetal Haemoglobin Suggests a Reduction in Protection against Malaria

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Neuroimaging in patients with sickle cell anemia: capacity building in Africa

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Newborn screening for sickle cell disease: an innovative pilot program to improve child survival in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Nocturnal haemoglobin oxygen desaturation in urban and rural East African paediatric cohorts with and without sickle cell anaemia: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Nocturnal haemoglobin oxygen saturation variability is associated with vitamin C deficiency in Tanzanian children with sickle cell anaemia

scientific article

Nutritional status, hospitalization and mortality among patients with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

scientific article

Oxygen Saturation in Primary Teeth of Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait

scientific article published in 2022

Patterns and patient factors associated with loss to follow-up in the Muhimbili sickle cell cohort, Tanzania

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Peripheral vascular response to inspiratory breath hold in paediatric homozygous sickle cell disease

scientific article

Perspectives from NHLBI Global Health Think Tank Meeting for Late Stage (T4) Translation Research

scientific article

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

scholarly article published 18 January 2017

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

scholarly article published 18 January 2017

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study.

scientific article

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Human Parvovirus B19 Infection in Sickle Cell Patients Hospitalized in Tanzania

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Prevalence and factors associated with severe anaemia amongst under-five children hospitalized at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Prevalence and prognostic implications of anaemia and iron deficiency in Tanzanian patients with heart failure

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

Rates and risk factors of hypertension in adolescents and adults with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania: 10 years' experience

scientific article

Rationale and design of mDOT-HuA study: a randomized trial to assess the effect of mobile-directly observed therapy on adherence to hydroxyurea in adults with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

scientific article

Ready-to-use food supplement, with or without arginine and citrulline, with daily chloroquine in Tanzanian children with sickle-cell disease: a double-blind, random order crossover trial.

scientific article

Relationships between sickle cell trait, malaria, and educational outcomes in Tanzania

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

scientific article published in June 2014

Risk factors for high cerebral blood flow velocity and death in Kenyan children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: role of haemoglobin oxygen saturation and febrile illness

scientific article

Sickle Cell Disease in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: Current Management and Challenges

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Sickle cell anemia: iron availability and nocturnal oximetry

scientific article

Sickle cell disease and H3Africa: enhancing genomic research on cardiovascular diseases in African patients

scientific article

Sickle cell disease and malaria: decreased exposure and asplenia can modulate the risk from Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Sickle cell disease in Africa: an overview of the integrated approach to health, research, education and advocacy in Tanzania, 2004-2016.

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Sickle cell disease in Africa: an urgent need for longitudinal cohort studies

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Sickle cell disease in Africa: burden and research priorities

scientific article published on January 2007

Sickle cell disease, malaria and dengue fever: a case of triple jeopardy

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Sickle cell disease: New opportunities and challenges in Africa

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Sickle cell disease: tipping the balance of genomic research to catalyse discoveries in Africa

scholarly article

SickleInAfrica

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Stakeholder Perspectives on Public Health Genomics Applications for Sickle Cell Disease: A Methodology for a Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Qualitative Research Study.

scientific article

Strengthening medical education in haematology and blood transfusion: postgraduate programmes in Tanzania

scientific article

The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

The Sickle Cell Disease Ontology: Enabling Collaborative Research and Co-Designing of New Planetary Health Applications

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

The clinical presentation, utilization, and outcome of individuals with sickle cell anaemia presenting to urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

scholarly article by Hendry Robert Sawe et al published 2018 in BMC hematology

Tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity and hospitalization in Tanzanian children with sickle cell anemia

scientific article published on January 2014

Turf wars: exploring splenomegaly in sickle cell disease in malaria-endemic regions.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Valid consent for genomic epidemiology in developing countries

scientific article

White Matter Integrity in Tanzanian Children With Sickle Cell Anemia: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

List of works by Julie Makani

: a genetic model of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease

A Massive Extradural Hematoma in Sickle Cell Disease and the Importance of Rapid Neuroimaging

A common molecular signature of patients with sickle cell disease revealed by microarray meta-analysis and a genome-wide association study

A pilot study of a non-invasive oral nitrate stable isotopic method suggests that arginine and citrulline supplementation increases whole-body NO production in Tanzanian children with sickle cell disease.

A qualitative study on aspects of consent for genomic research in communities with low literacy

A robust mass spectrometry method for rapid profiling of erythrocyte ghost membrane proteomes

A ten year review of the sickle cell program in Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania

Addressing gaps in international blood availability and transfusion safety in low- and middle-income countries: a NHLBI workshop.

Admission diagnosis of cerebral malaria in adults in an endemic area of Tanzania: implications and clinical description

Alteration of lymphocyte phenotype and function in sickle cell anemia: Implications for vaccine responses

An observational study of children with sickle cell disease in Kilifi, Kenya

Anaemia and iron deficiency in heart failure: epidemiological gaps, diagnostic challenges and therapeutic barriers in sub-Saharan Africa

Anemia at the initiation of tuberculosis therapy is associated with delayed sputum conversion among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Artemisinin Therapy for Malaria in Hemoglobinopathies: A Systematic Review

Audit of clinical-laboratory practices in haematology and blood transfusion at Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania

Bacteraemia in Kenyan children with sickle-cell anaemia: a retrospective cohort and case-control study

Bacteraemia in sickle cell anaemia is associated with low haemoglobin: a report of 890 admissions to a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

Cerebral Infarcts and Vasculopathy in Tanzanian Children With Sickle Cell Anemia

Clinical utility of HCV core antigen detection and quantification using serum samples and dried blood spots in people who inject drugs in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Complications of sickle cell anaemia in children in Northwestern Tanzania

Contemporary aetiology, clinical characteristics and prognosis of adults with heart failure observed in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: the prospective Tanzania Heart Failure (TaHeF) study

Curative options for sickle cell disease in Africa: Approach in Tanzania

Decreased Hepcidin Levels Are Associated with Low Steady-state Hemoglobin in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania

End points for sickle cell disease clinical trials: renal and cardiopulmonary, cure, and low-resource settings

Establishing a Multi-Country Sickle Cell Disease Registry in Africa: Ethical Considerations

Exploring the Role of Shared Decision Making in the Consent Process for Pediatric Genomics Research in Cameroon, Tanzania, and Ghana

F cell numbers are associated with an X-linked genetic polymorphism and correlate with haematological parameters in patients with sickle cell disease

Family, Community, and Health System Considerations for Reducing the Burden of Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease in Uganda Through Newborn Screening

Fetal Hemoglobin is Associated with Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania

Finding a cure for sickle cell disease

Genetic association of fetal-hemoglobin levels in individuals with sickle cell disease in Tanzania maps to conserved regulatory elements within the MYB core enhancer

Genetic variants at HbF-modifier loci moderate anemia and leukocytosis in sickle cell disease in Tanzania

Genetics of fetal hemoglobin in Tanzanian and British patients with sickle cell anemia

Genome wide association study of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

Global arginine bioavailability in Tanzanian sickle cell anaemia patients at steady-state: a nested case control study of deaths versus survivors

Global genetic architecture of an erythroid quantitative trait locus, HMIP-2

H3ABioNet, a sustainable pan-African bioinformatics network for human heredity and health in Africa

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Tanzania

Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania.

Health policy for sickle cell disease in Africa: experience from Tanzania on interventions to reduce under-five mortality

Heart failure in Tanzania and Sweden: Comparative characterization and prognosis in the Tanzania Heart Failure (TaHeF) study and the Swedish Heart Failure Registry (SwedeHF).

Hematological and Genetic Predictors of Daytime Hemoglobin Saturation in Tanzanian Children with and without Sickle Cell Anemia

Hematology in Africa

High birth prevalence of sickle cell disease in Northwestern Tanzania

High mortality from Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children living with sickle cell anemia on the coast of Kenya

High prevalence of individuals with low concentration of fetal hemoglobin in F-cells in sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

Hydroxyurea - An Essential Medicine for Sickle Cell Disease in Africa

Identifying genetic variants and pathways associated with extreme levels of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease in Tanzania

Immunoglobulin G responses against falciparum malaria specific antigens are higher in children with homozygous sickle cell trait than those with normal hemoglobin

Inauguration of the Tanzania Society of Human Genetics: Biomedical Research in Tanzania with Emphasis on Human Genetics and Genomics

Influence of gender norms in relation to child's quality of care: follow-up of families of children with SCD identified through NBS in Tanzania

Limited Exchange Transfusion Can Be Very Beneficial in Sickle Cell Anemia with Acute Chest Syndrome: A Case Report from Tanzania.

Making Hydroxyurea Affordable for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania is Essential (HASTE): how to meet major health needs at a reasonable cost

Malaria as a cause of morbidity and mortality in children with homozygous sickle cell disease on the coast of Kenya

Malaria in patients with sickle cell anemia: burden, risk factors, and outcome at the outpatient clinic and during hospitalization

Management of sickle cell disease in the community

Molecular genetics research in sub-Saharan Africa: how can the international community help?

Mortality in sickle cell anemia in Africa: a prospective cohort study in Tanzania

Negative Epistasis between Sickle and Foetal Haemoglobin Suggests a Reduction in Protection against Malaria

Neuroimaging in patients with sickle cell anemia: capacity building in Africa

Newborn screening for sickle cell disease: an innovative pilot program to improve child survival in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nocturnal haemoglobin oxygen desaturation in urban and rural East African paediatric cohorts with and without sickle cell anaemia: a cross-sectional study

Nocturnal haemoglobin oxygen saturation variability is associated with vitamin C deficiency in Tanzanian children with sickle cell anaemia

Nutritional status, hospitalization and mortality among patients with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

Oxygen Saturation in Primary Teeth of Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait

Patterns and patient factors associated with loss to follow-up in the Muhimbili sickle cell cohort, Tanzania

Peripheral vascular response to inspiratory breath hold in paediatric homozygous sickle cell disease

Perspectives from NHLBI Global Health Think Tank Meeting for Late Stage (T4) Translation Research

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

Possible Risk Factors for Severe Anemia in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study.

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Human Parvovirus B19 Infection in Sickle Cell Patients Hospitalized in Tanzania

Prevalence and factors associated with severe anaemia amongst under-five children hospitalized at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

Prevalence and prognostic implications of anaemia and iron deficiency in Tanzanian patients with heart failure

Rates and risk factors of hypertension in adolescents and adults with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania: 10 years' experience

Rationale and design of mDOT-HuA study: a randomized trial to assess the effect of mobile-directly observed therapy on adherence to hydroxyurea in adults with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania

Ready-to-use food supplement, with or without arginine and citrulline, with daily chloroquine in Tanzanian children with sickle-cell disease: a double-blind, random order crossover trial.

Relationships between sickle cell trait, malaria, and educational outcomes in Tanzania