Can biracial children get sickle cell disease?

Yes, they can. Sickle cell disease can affect people of ANY race or ethnicity.

Sickle cell disease, an inherited disorder of the red blood cells, is more common in African Americans in the U.S. compared to other ethnicities—occurring in approximately 1 in 365 African Americans. However, there are other groups of people who also may inherit sickle cell disease.

It is common in Africa, in Mediterranean countries (such as Greece, Turkey, and Italy), the Arabian Peninsula, India, Spanish-speaking regions in South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. In all those regions, both dark and light skin people can carry copies of the sickle cell genes.