If you have sickle cell trait, you have inherited the gene for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell trait does not turn into sickle cell disease. If someone has sickle cell trait and his partner has sickle cell trait they may produce a child with sickle cell disease. There are about 2.5 million people in America with sickle cell trait.
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Hydroxyurea, the first sickle cell drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug drugs currently available for sickle cell disease. It helps
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My googling showed that sickle cell is not a 'black' disease. It is mutation that came about because it protects humans against malaria. It is more common in people whose ancestors come from parts of the world where malaria is or was frequent.
According to the World Health Organizations, these regions include: sub-Saharan and Northeast Africa
Spanish-speaking regions of the Americas, the Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean countries such as Italy, Greece, and Turkey, the Middle East,, and South Asia
According to blackdoctor.org It is more common in people of African descent, but the sickle cell trait can also affect Hispanics, South Asians, Caucasians from southern Europe, as well as people from Middle Eastern countries.
You mention the fact that Betsy doesn't have the gene doesn't mean that a child of hers and Ethan's coupling couldn't get it. We get our genes from BOTH our parents after all.
According to gemone.gov A baby born with sickle cell disease inherits a gene for the disorder from both parents. When both parents have the genetic defect, there's a 25 percent chance that each child will be born with sickle cell disease.
If a child inherits only one copy of the defective gene (from either parent), there is a 50 percent chance that the child will carry the sickle cell trait. People who only carry the sickle cell trait typically don't get the disease, but can pass the defective gene on to their children.
Only Ethan has/had the sickle cell.
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