What effect does sickle cell anemia have on the sedimentation rate?

Why is the erythrocyte sedimentation rate low with sickle cell anemia patients?

because the sickle cell has small surface. and the ESR is proportional to surface area of red blood cell.

How do you ge sickle cell anemia?

You get Sickle-Cell Anemia by Birth,it is a genetic disorder.

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

Which form of anemia is a genetic disorder?

It sounds like you are looking for Sickle Cell Anemia.

Is sickle cell anemia genetic or environmental?

Sickle cell anemia is genetic. It is an autosomal recessive disease.

When a mutation in the hemoglobin gene causes what disorder?

While technically there are more than one, the main one by far is sickle cell anemia.

If sickle-cell anemia is so destructive why hasn't the sickle-cell allele been eliminated from the population?

It is important to note that sickle-cell anemia comes in two forms. The homozygous sickle-cell anemia and the heterozygous sickle-cell trait. The difference between the two is that sickle-cell anemia has a high rate death rate at a young age (20~), and the sickle-cell trait is nearly asymptomatic.In regions such as North America, sickle-cell anemia would be selected against and would eventually leave the gene pool. The sickle-cell trait on the other hand, has little effect on the fitness of the organism, and as such will remain in the gene pool.In malaria endemic regions such as sub-Sahara Africa, sickle-cell anemia provides very high levels of immunity to malaria and the sickle-cell trait provides a slightly lesser level of immunity. Both forms of sickle-cell will increase the organisms fitness and as such, it will remain in the gene pool. Further on, the sickle-cell trait has greater fitness than sickle-cell anemia, hence, the sickle-cell trait will be selected as the fittest allele.If s is the sickle-cell allele and S is a normal allele;The relative fitness in malaria endemic regions;Ss > ss > SSSickle-cell trait > Sickle-cell anemia > NormalThe relative fitness in non-malaria endemic regions;SS > Ss > ssNormal > Sickle-cell trait > Sickle-cell anemia