who is most likely to have sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait?

Answer 1

The sickle cell trait only occurs in people of African ancestry. This is an adaption that helps to fight malaria, but also causes Sickle Cell Anemia. If a person inherits this from both parents, they get it.

Answer 2

Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that affects hemoglobin (pronounced: hee-muh-glow-bin), a protein found in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen throughout the body.

Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary disorder that mostly affects people of African ancestry, but also occurs in other ethnic groups, including people who are of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent. More than 70,000 Americans have sickle cell anemia. And about 2 million Americans - and one in 12 African Americans - have sickle cell trait (this means they carry one gene for the disease, but do not have the disease itself).

Answer 3

Its black people, because from a long time ago in Africa in a certain spot there Malaria was prevalent. The sickle cell shape f the red blood cell helped in some way with coping with the disease.

Answer 4

In Africa, malaria is rather familiar. Having sickle cellular anemia makes it stressful to get malaria. for this reason, people who had genes for sickle cellular anemia have been much less possibly to die of malaria. This gave them an evolutionary benefit and human beings of african descent are greater possibly to have the gene for sickle cel anemia

Answer 5

Black people.
The theory is, because having sickle cell makes you immune to malaria...so places with malaria have a lot of people with sickle cell

Answer 6

Sickle cell largely afflicts people of African descent.

Answer 7

It mostly affects people of African ancestry, but also occurs in other ethnic groups, including people who are of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent.

Answer 8

black people but I don't know why

Answer 9

jews and blacks