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Why do patients with sickle cell have a particular blood type?

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They don't : The genes that code for blood type are totally separate from the gene for sickle cell disease, and the distribution of blood types among persons with and without sickle cell anemia are the same.

Dr Munshower and another doctor agreed

Answered 3/19/2015

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