An african american couple is undergoing genetic counseling to determine the likelihood of producing children with a recessively
genetic blood condition. the genetic tests reveal that the father carries the trait to produce abnormal hemoglobin, hbs, which causes crystallization in rbcs and deforms their shape when o2 is low. this condition causes painful crises and multiple infarcts and is termed
For the answer to the question above, they are suffering from <span><u>"Sickle cell anemia"</u>. This is </span>a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape.
