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Sickle-cell anemia is frequently described as affecting onlyAfricans or people of African descent; it’s considered a “racial”disease that doesn’t affect other populations. How would youexplain to someone that this View is incorrect?

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Sicklecell anaemia follows autosomal recessive pattern oof inheritence from parents meaning if one parent has sicklecell anaemia and the other has sicklecell trait then the child has a 50 chance of having sicklecell disease and a 50 chance of having sicklecell trait When both parents have sicklecell trait a child has a 25 chance of sicklecell disease 25 do not carry any sicklecell alleles and 50 have the heterozygous condition It is frequently described as affecting only Africans or people of African descent because of    See Answer
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