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Why are not Americans affected with sickle cell anaemia?
natural selection and heredity Americans are affected with sickle cell anaemia which mostly affects black people.
What is glutamate replaced by in sickle cell anemia?
Hi, Glutamate is replaced by valine in sickle cell anaemia
Where in the world are the most cases of Malaria and Sickle Cell anaemia?
Malaria is common in topical ad subtropical zones. The malaria has selected the people with sickle cell anaemia. Although person with sickle cell anemia can have malaria, the carrier, or the person with sickle cell trait is resistant to malaria.
Do primates have sickle cell anemia?
That is very interesting question, indeed. Your concern for the primates needs appreciation. The answer to this question is probably positive. Sickle cell anaemia is a natural selection in malaria endemic zone. The sickle cell trait patient is genetically resistant to malarial fever. So many primates suffer from malarial fever. From this finding you can say that sickle cell anaemia should be present in primates, who live in tropical countries.
Can you explain what evolutionary advantage mean and how it accounts for why sickle cell anaemia is still so widespread in Africa?
evolutionary advantage means that if you have to types of sickle cell anaemia and one is resistant to a drug the the other one is not then the one that is not resistant dies off and the sickle cell anaemia that is resistant becomes dominant and that is why sickle cell anaemia is still so widespread in Africa because the strain that is widespread in Africa is resistant is anti-biotics.
How many people in the UK have sickle cell anaemia?
15000 people with sickle cell in the UK i think
How does sickle cell anaemia cured?
Sorry there is no cure only treatment.
What are the drugs contraindicated in sickle cell anaemia?
Most of them I would imagine.
Do people die from sickle cell anaemia?
20,000 people die with sickle cell each year
Is sickle cell anemia a single gene defect or multiple gene?
Sickle Cell Anaemia is a single gene defect (Hb gene).
Which is a degenerative disease atherosclerosis malaria rickets sickle cell anaemia?
antherosclerosis
Do red blood cells that cause sickle anaemia have cell organelles?
yes
