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What is the percentage of likelihood that a person who has two parents with sickle cell anemia to be carried on?
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Why do African Americans get affected by sickle cell anemia?
Sickle cell anemia is a gentic disease carried by people of African and sometimes Indian decent. Although both parents need to at least carry the gene for their children to get it not necessarily have the disease.
Sickle-cell anemia is a disease passed by autosomal recessive inheritance. What is the likelihood that a person who has two parents with the disease will be a carrier of the defective gene?
It is 100% possible that a person who has two parents with the disease will be a carrier of the defective gene.
How does someone catch hemolytic anemia?
Someone can catch hemolytic anemia from their parents. When a child is born and if the parents possess this condition, it can be passed on to the child.
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.
What Percentage of Caucasians have sickle cell anemia?
.01 percent
Is Cooley's Anemia found more commonly in certain groups of people?
The original term for cooley's anemia, is Mediterranean anemia. People from the Mediterranean origin tend to develop this disease more commonly. Children can inherit it from one of their parents.
What is a decrease in the volume percentage of Red Blood Cells in the whole body called?
In general it is called anemia but the causes varies from case to case
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.
What are examples of genetic ailments?
Sickle Cell Anemia would be a genetic ailment because it is passed down from the parents.
If a child has sickle-cell disease (ss) but neither parent is ill. What must be true of he parents' genotypes?
The parents are both recessive (Ss) for sickle cell anemia.
A child has sickle-cell disease (ss) but neither parent is ill What must be true of her parents genotypes?
The parents are both recessive (Ss) for sickle cell anemia.
Can a normal homozygous individual produce offspring with sickle-cell anemia?
A normal homozygous individual can't produce offspring with sickle cell anemia. Both parents must carry the trait to have an offspring with the illness.
