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Sickle Cell Anemia

Description: Sickle Cell Anemia is when the red blood cells in one's bloodstream becomes a crecent shape or like a sickle. Almost all sickle cell pacients have painful episodes that deal great damage to the back and chest bones. to detect the disease they do a complete blood count. The complete blood clot or (cbc) is the most common blood test,

Chromosome location: The certain location of Sickle Cell Anemia is unknown. The aproxement gene location is Chromesome 11.

Treatment: There is no treatment beside bone marrow transplant for sickle cell anemia.

Life Expectancy: New medication of this time has lead to allowing sickle cell patients to live for up to fifty years

Support Organizations: The sickle cell foundation [] Erica Watson