The carrier state for sickle cell disease is not completely harmless

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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a clinical syndrome caused by the presence of hemoglobin S (HbS), in which glutamic acid in position 6 of the β chain of hemoglobin is substituted by valine (βGlu6Val). It is generally recognized as an autosomal recessive disorder, in that individuals who have inherited one copy of the HbS allele and one normal HbA allele (i.e. have HbAS or sickle cell trait, SCT), are typically...

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