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Can you tell me how is sickle cell disease contracted?
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Inheritance: The sickle cell gene is a mutation in the way the hemoglobin molecule is formed.It takes a pair of sickle genes to cause the change.A single normal gene can cancel the abnormal gene effect. Parents with a single sickle cell gene will be asymptomatic. When a baby gets a sickle gene from both parents, the abnormal genes are expressed as SS disease.
Answered 5/30/2014
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