Sickle cell anemia is caused by an inherited mutation and can be classified as which type of disease?

Answer 1

Sickle Cell Anemia (or Sickle Cell Disease) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease, which means the affected person has to have 2 copies of the mutated hemoglobin gene to have Sickle Cell Disease. This can only happen if both parents are carriers of the mutated hemoglobin gene (this means each parent will have one normal hemoglobin gene and one mutated hemoglobin mutated gene).

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