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Sickle Cell Disease is Inherited

  • Tiffany Lewis
  • Feb 12, 2023
  • 1 min read

Sickle cell disease is Inherited, meaning that it runs in families. People who have sickle cell disease inherit two faulty hemoglobin genes, called hemoglobin S — one from each parent.

A person has sickle cell trait when the hemoglobin S gene is inherited from only one parent and a normal hemoglobin gene — hemoglobin

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A — is inherited from the other.

 
 
 

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