sickle cell trait

Both parents either carry the sickle cell trait or have the disease.

Over this time 62 died of natural causes, including 13 who had sickle cell trait.

People with sickle cell trait can lead perfectly healthy lives.

To have the disease, both sets of parents must carry what is known as the sickle cell trait.

However, individuals with sickle cell trait may have rare complications.

About 1 in 12 African Americans has sickle cell trait.

Certain hemoglobinopathies, the most common of which is sickle cell trait, do this.

The sickle cell trait is associated with resistance to malaria.

It concluded that Martin died from complications of sickle cell trait.

A similar mechanism occurs with persons who have sickle cell trait.

The diagnosis was later changed to sickle cell trait.

By itself, the sickle cell trait is not harmful.

Genetic counseling is recommended for all carriers of sickle cell trait.

About 2 million Americans have sickle cell trait.

About 8 percent of black people in the United States have sickle cell trait, which is rare among whites.

The impact of sickle cell trait on malaria immunity is of particular interest.

It is estimated that 2.5 million Americans are heterozygous carriers for the sickle cell trait.

Sickle cell trait is usually a harmless condition.

Sickle cell trait prevalence is highest in West Africa (25% of the population).

States have begun to adopt laws to protect people found to have sickle cell trait from such discrimination.

When a child inherits the gene from just one parent, that child has sickle cell trait.

There have been calls to reclassify sickle cell trait as a disease state, based on its malignant clinical presentations.

In March 1992, a student with sickle cell trait died after exposure to high altitude and stress in the mountain phase.

Defense attorneys said in opening statements that they would show Anderson's death could not have been prevented and was caused solely by sickle cell trait.

The occurrence of sickle cell trait is particularly high in Sicily where frequencies of 13% have been reported.