This condition leads to shortened red blood cell survival, and subsequent anaemia, often called sickle-cell anaemia.
It's long been known, for example, that gene variations that protect some Africans from malaria make them vulnerable to sickle-cell anemia.
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Zoltan Csiki: Yes, indeed, it had two large sickle claws on both feet.
Approximately 5% of the world's population are healthy carriers of a gene for sickle-cell disease or thalassaemia.
So Africans with AIDS, cancer, sickle-cell disease, victims of car crashes, gunshot and machete wounds, and women in labour, suffer severe pain without relief.
The tortuous moon is hanging on the treetop , likes a little sickle.
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
"The farmers heard Shouting took a hoe and sickle running up the mountain, they were running and Shouting:" do not be afraid, kids, we're here to help you fight wolves!
It's the same as black people, who seem to be more at risk of sickle cell disease than white people but you're not going to attempt to cure 'blackness' to cure sickle cell.
She bought herself a hoe and a sickle.
The system could also diagnose sickle-cell anaemia from blood samples, while fluorescent images of a stained sputum smear were sufficient to identify the presence of tuberculosis.
Approximately 5% of the world's population carries trait genes for haemoglobin disorders, mainly, sickle-cell disease and thalassaemia.
One of these was the evolution of the hammer and sickle symbol from its agrarian roots into a space-age propaganda object, as seen above.
To investigate BCL11A's therapeutic value, Orkin's team turned to a mouse model for sickle cell disease.
It's only when you inherit the mutation from both parents that you get sickle-cell anemia.
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