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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.
How do you ge sickle cell anemia?
You get Sickle-Cell Anemia by Birth,it is a genetic disorder.
How often doese sickle cell anemia occur in the population?
Sickle cell anemia is found in approximately 1 in 5000 people. It is mostly found in people from Sub-Saharan Africa do to the nature of the disease providing resistance to malaria.
Is sickle cell anemia a point mutation?
An example of point-mutation is sickle-cell anemia. Sickle-cell disease is hereditary.
Is sickle cell anemia recessive or dominant?
Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disease. Carriers have sickle cell trait, which confers resistance to malaria.
Is Sickle cell anemia genetic?
Yes, Sickle Cell Anemia is in fact a genetic disorder.
Sickle-cell anemia is an example of a point-mutation?
An example of point-mutation is sickle-cell anemia. Sickle-cell disease is hereditary.
What is a genetic autoimmune difficiency in which blood cells look like a sickle It is not sickle cell anemia?
sickle cell anemia
Is sickle cells disease hereditary?
Sickle cell anemia -yes it is hereditary
When was sickle cell anemia discovered?
Sickle cell anemia was discovered in the 1870's and carried many names, but 1922 it was officially named sickle cell anemia.
Which form of anemia is a genetic disorder?
It sounds like you are looking for Sickle Cell Anemia.
Who is more likely to get sickle-cell anemia?
It is more common for people of African descent to get sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is linked to survivors of falciparum malaria (P. falciparum), it is believed that the hemoglobin cells take on the sickle shape to give the mammal an increased survival rate.
