Sunday, January 20, 2008

Genes and Inheritance of an Illness

Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited blood disorder which mostly affects people of the African dynasty. It is believed that the sickle cell aneamia is the result of a gene mutation which occurred thousands of years ago in Africa due to malaria.

In the United States, approximately eight percent of African Americans have sickle aneamia trait and one in every five hundred have the disease.

Sickle cell anaemia is a blood disorder that affects the haemoglobin, a protein that fills the red blood cells and carries oxygen throughout the body. Sickle cell anemia occurs when a person inherits two abnormal genes that cause the disc shaped red blood cells to change their shape to crescent.

Medical genetics is constantly working on the treatment for the genetic disease such as sickle anaemia .

The National Institute of Science and Media have various titles on the subject of biotechnology and other branches of life science. Joel Ball, is a distinguished writer on the various study resources pertaining to biotechnology and other related subjects under the NISM name

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