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How come clinical signs in sickle cell anemia don't appear until the child is at least 12 months old?
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Maturing hemoglobin: The hemoglobin involved with sickle cell develops after birth. Children are born with a different hemoglobin type and this changes over the first 3-6 months to be sickle hemoglobin. This is what delays the syptoms of sickle cell.
Answered 12/9/2013
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