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Oh man, that's a hereditary blood disorder, characterized by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying haemoglobin molecule in red blood cells. Let me put it in other words, is a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. It usually begins in early childhood. It is not a Black people disease. It is most common among people whose ancestors come from Africa; Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Turkey, and Italy; the Arabian Peninsula; India; and Spanish-speaking regions in South America, Central America, and parts of the Caribbean.
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What type of anemia is a genetic disease typically found among people of African descent?
the disease is sickle cell
What is the serious hereditary blood disease found most commonly in African-Americans?
Sickle cell anemia
What can you do to prevent your chances of getting sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell can not be "caught". It is an inherited genetic disease and is only in the African American community.
What type of anemia is a genetic disease commonly found among people of African descent?
Sickle cell anemia.
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.
What words are involved with sickle cell disease?
Not containing enough Red blood cells. From African and Indian decent. Sickle cell disease is a defective hemoglobin.
What percentage of patients with Sickle Cell Disease is not of African decent?
Sickle Cell Disease can be found in patients of any nationality or decent. Both parents must carry the recessive gene for this disease, and only then their offspring have a 25% chance of inheriting the disease. Those of African decent have approximately an 8% chance of inheriting the disease, Hispanics have about a 0.07% chance of inheriting the disease, and whites have roughly a 0.001% chance of inheriting the disease.
Is you kiss do you get sickle cell disease?
No. Sickle Cell is not an infectious disease, but is genetic.
Is sickle cell disease a blood cancer?
No, sickle cell disease is not cancerous.
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.
What population is affected by sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell generally affects those of African origin, more specifically those whose parents are from areas where malaria is common
What genetic disorder results in abnormally shaped blood?
Spherocytosis
