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Miles Davis, Paul Williams, Tionne, and Georgeanna Tillman are famous celebrities that have or had sickle cell disease.
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How common is Sickle cell anemia?
Sickele-Cell Anemia ia one one of the most common genetic blood disorders.
What is one of the most common inherited diseases for Africans?
sickle cell anemia
What are the odds of getting sickle-cell anemia?
Sickele-Cell Anemia ia one one of the most common genetic blood disorders.
What is the most frequent hemoglobin disease in the ambulatory care?
Anemia and thalacemia
What is the name of a common disease that black people get?
You are probably looking for the disease 'Sickle cell anemia'. It is most common in blacks but it doesn't mean that if you are black that you have it.
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.
In which area in Africa would you expect the sickle-cell hemoglobin gene to be the most common?
The area with the most malaria. Sickle-cell confers resistance against malaria, and so you'd expect populations in the most malaria heavy zones to have the highest prevalance of sickle-cell anemia.
What is the serious hereditary blood disease found most commonly in African-Americans?
Sickle cell anemia
What condition is the most nutrition responsive?
The condition that is known for being the most nutrition responsive is iron- deficiency anemia. This also apples to sickle-cell anemia.
How do you get sickle cell disease?
You can prevent sickle cell disease by theres no way you can but if you have sickle cell disease you can get blood transfusions to stop most of the pain becasue you can get new blood cells instead of moon like shaped cells and then you will have easier blood flow and no pain because it wont clog anymore.
What groups get sickle cell disease?
A person can only inherit sickle-cell genes if some of their ancestors came from certain regions in Africa where the inhabitants carry sickle-cell genes. A person with one sickle-cell gene has sickle-cell trait, a milder problem. If both father and mother pass on sickle-cell genes, the child, with two genes, will have sickle-cell disease.
Sickle-cell anemia is caused by a mutation that results in?
Sickle-cell anemia would be best described as a mutation of the haemoglobin gene. This is a blood disorder which is inherited in most cases.
