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How do you known which parent give the child the sickle cell trait?
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You test both to see: This is a simple test, a hemoglobin electrophoresis.If a kid has trait, at least one or possibly both parents may have it.It would be quite rare for the kid to have a new mutation and neither parent have it.
Answered 11/8/2013
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