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What is sickle-cell disease and how is this disorder inherited?
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∙ 12y ago
Sickle-cell anemia is characterised by abnormal haemoglobin which are not the correct shape and cannot carry oxygen.
It is a genetic disease - and a person must have two copies of the gene to have sickle-cell anemia. (Heterozygous individuals, with one copy, are known as having sickle-cell trait - and some of their haemoglobin may be misshapen).
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