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Can you get sickle cell from your parents?

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Yes, and this is the only way to get sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell (both the milder "disease" form and the more severe "anemia" form) are caused by an inherited mutation in a protein that helps form the red blood cells - the defect results in red blood cells that are shaped like crescents or sickles, which is how the disease gets its name.

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Can you catch sickle cell if you kiss someone with sickle cell?

NO, Sickle Cell Anemia is a Genetic Disorder that you inherit from your Parents. You are either born with it or not.


Explain how 2 parents neither of whom have sickle cell could have a child with sickle cell?

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What is requires for a person to have sickle cell disease?

The person is homozygous for the trait


Can sickle cell be known before birth?

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The parents are both recessive (Ss) for sickle cell anemia.


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The parents are both recessive (Ss) for sickle cell anemia.


Can child be born with sickle cell if one parent is sickle cell carrier and another is normal?

A child has to receive the gene from both parents to heve sickle cell anemia. if only one parent passes on the gene, then the child will have sickle cell trait, but no symptoms of sickle cell anemia.


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The parents are both recessive (Ss) for sickle cell anemia.


Is sickle cell an inherited?

yes, it is inherited from both parents.


Why do people of Mediterranean and African decent have sickle cell anemia?

Sickle cell anemia is a inherited blood disorder. This means everyone who has sickle cell has inherited it from their parents. With this in mind it means there was a key ancestor in Africa or the Mediterranean who had the first sickle cell anemia and passed it on to their descendants.


Is sickle cell anemia an deficiency disease?

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Is sickle cell deadly?

Yes. It is a genetic disease passed by both parents with the sickle cell trait and it is very painful for the person who has it. They eventually, die of it.