why is sickle cell anemia found mostly in people of African heritage?? thanks!?

Answer 1

http://www.scinfo.org/
http://www.sicklecellsociety.org/
http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/menu_sickle.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/blood/sickle_cell_anemia.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell

Okay here is a few sites

Answer 2

sickle cell anemia is an example of how our body evolves to help itself survive. sickle cell anemia's purpose was to deal with the even bigger problem faced in africa: malaria. Malaria gets into the blood from mosquitos, however, it cannot survive on the sickle shaped cells, so those people stricken with sickle cell anemia are immune to malaria.

Answer 3

I knew mpre about this in the past. But this is what I remember----that the DNA for the sickle cell disease I RELATED in the genes to a protective characteristic for jungle living.

Answer 4

Its a black thing, you would not understand...