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Does sickle cell effect children

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

yes it does

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If you mother and father are both sickle cell carriers what are the chances that you will not have the trait?

It is impossible to predict what will happen with one person! In a population of 2,000 people, 1,000 women have sickle cell trait and 1,000 men do not. They marry. Each couple has 2 children. 1,000 children will have sickle cell trait and 1,000 children will not. In a population of 2,000 people, 1,000 women have sickle cell trait and 1,000 men have sickle cell trait. They marry. Each couple has 2 children. 1,000 children will have sickle cell trait, 500 children will not, and 500 children will have sickle cell anemia. No one knows which of those parents will produce which children. No one knows how to predict how your children will turn out.


Who does the sickle cell disease effect?

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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 anemia affect growth?

Children with sickle cell anemia may have delayed growth and reach puberty at a later age than normal


what if the father has sickle trait, does that mean the baby will have it?

If one parent has sickle cell trait and the other parent has the normal type of hemoglobin, there is a 50% (1 in 2) chance with EACH pregnancy that the baby will be born with sickle cell trait.


Do you capitalize sickle cell anemia?

There are some people in the society who try to capitalize the chronic illnesses like the sickle cell anemia. But then they are the ones who take care of the children and not you.


What are the chances of a person having a sickle cell disease passing the disease to their offspring?

If one represents a sickle cell gene thus "C" and a normal gene thus "O" then both parents are: Mum CO Dad CO The possibilities for their children are therefore CC OO CO CO in those proportion so 1in 4 will have sickle cell anaemia, 2 in 4 will be carriers (like their parents) and 1/4 will be normal.


Is sickle cell disease inherited in biracial children?

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Can children get sickle cell?

Only if they have 2 parents with the trait(gene) or disease


What population of people does sickle-cell effect more than others?

Sickle-cell anemia affects black people more than other groups. There is some indication that sickle-cell gives a survival benefit for some tropical diseases, such as the Malaria parasite.