what kind of disease is sickle cell Anemia?
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In all type of sickle cell disease, at least one of the two abnormal genes causes a person's body to make haemoglobin S.
When a person habit to hemoglobin S genes, the disease is called sickle cell Anemia
Sickel cell anaemia ::
❇It is a medalian disorder.
❇ It is a autosomal linked recessive trait.
❇This disease is controlled by a single pair of allele.
❇ This disease is Transmitted from the parents to the offspring when both are carrier of a gene.
Causes of Sickle cell anaemia ::
❇ The disease is caused due to the substitution of glutamic acid by valine. at the 6 th position of the beta globin chain. of haemoglobin.
❇ The amino acid is changed from
" GAG --- GUG "
❇The mutant haemoglobin molecule undergoes polymerisation under low oxygen tension causing change in shape of RBC.
❇From biconcave to sickle shape.
