The sickle cell disease was discovered in England in 1910 1. It is a Haemoglobinopathy which is genetically inherited from parents. The sickle cell gene that codes for the abnormal Hb is a recessive one and is inherited in a simple mendelian fashion. The normal HB is HBA. In the heterozygous state (AS) otherwise called sickle cell trait or carrier state,
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