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  2. Sickle cell trait - Wikipedia

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    Hematology. Sickle cell trait describes a condition in which a person has one abnormal allele of the hemoglobin beta gene (is heterozygous ), but does not display the severe symptoms of sickle cell disease that occur in a person who has two copies of that allele (is homozygous ). Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell allele produce ...

  3. Human genetic resistance to malaria - Wikipedia

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    This vein (4) shows the interaction between the malaria sporozoites (6) with sickle cells (3) and regular cells (1). While malaria is still affecting the regular cells (2), the ratio of sickle to regular cells is 50/50 due to sickle cell anemia being a heterozygous trait, so the malaria cannot affect enough cells with schizonts (5) to harm the ...

  4. Anthony Clifford Allison - Wikipedia

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    In 1954 he discovered, confirming his preconception, that people with sickle-cell trait are resistant to the deadly falciparum malaria. In the 1970s, Allison had worked out the enzyme, inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase, as a key molecule of the immune response in autoimmune diseases and in organ transplantation.

  5. U.S. approves two sickle cell gene therapies, which ... - AOL

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    Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and ...

  6. FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first ... - AOL

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    The FDA on Friday also approved a second treatment for sickle cell disease, called Lyfgenia, a gene therapy from drugmaker Bluebird Bio. Both treatments work by genetically modifying a patient’s ...

  7. Promising new gene therapies for sickle cell are out of ... - AOL

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    Access to gene therapies was a major focus of this year’s international summit on human genome editing in London. ... sickle cell trait helps protect against severe malaria. ... therapy for ...