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What's the rate of occurrence of sickle cell disease (gene frequency, and mutation rate)?
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Sickle: What is the rate of occurrence for the disease sickle cell anemia or disease?" -- the occurrence rate is 25% if both parents are carriers, 50% if one parent has it and another parent is a carrier and 100% if both parents have it. Roughly 1, 000 infants are born, in the U.S., with it each year.
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