Sickle Cell Genetics Paper

Johnny Pneumatic · 26th October 2004, 05:12 PM

I've been so busy lately and my genetics paper for Biology has slipped up on me. My topic is Sickle Cell Anemia. I need informational sources on it, please help!

Dr. Imago · 26th October 2004, 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by SkepticJ
I've been so busy lately and my genetics paper for Biology has slipped up on me. My topic is Sickle Cell Anemia. I need informational sources on it, please help!

What, precisely, are you looking for (i.e., what's the thesis of your paper)?

-TT

geni · 26th October 2004, 05:58 PM

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Originally posted by SkepticJ
I've been so busy lately and my genetics paper for Biology has slipped up on me. My topic is Sickle Cell Anemia. I need informational sources on it, please help!

well this should give you an idea what to look for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_Cell_Anemia

Paul C. Anagnostopoulos · 26th October 2004, 06:06 PM

Don't forget to discuss the relation between sickle cell and malaria.

~~ Paul

Kumar · 27th October 2004, 01:53 AM

You can ckeck here:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/s...ellanemia.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

Soapy Sam · 27th October 2004, 07:12 AM

http://www.innvista.com/health/ailme...s/sickhist.htm

Paul is right. Anthony Allison had , I believe, lived in East Africa. He suspected that the distribution of SCA was related to malaria.
It appears that the mutation responsible for SCA confers resistance to malaria and so could spread through west Africa although itself a harmful mutation. Among descendants of west African slaves in the US, the condition has no positive benefit , while retaining it's negative effects.

Check out Thalassaemia too- another form of amaemia, widespread around the eastern Mediterranean. It seems to confer similar resistance to malaria.

It seems probable that many other human genes have evolved in response to selective pressure from malaria and other endemic disease. The SCA mutation is just a good example .

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geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,578	Re: Sickle Cell Genetics Paper Quote: Originally posted by SkepticJ I've been so busy lately and my genetics paper for Biology has slipped up on me. My topic is Sickle Cell Anemia. I need informational sources on it, please help! well this should give you an idea what to look for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_Cell_Anemia

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Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885	http://www.innvista.com/health/ailme...s/sickhist.htm Paul is right. Anthony Allison had , I believe, lived in East Africa. He suspected that the distribution of SCA was related to malaria. It appears that the mutation responsible for SCA confers resistance to malaria and so could spread through west Africa although itself a harmful mutation. Among descendants of west African slaves in the US, the condition has no positive benefit , while retaining it's negative effects. Check out Thalassaemia too- another form of amaemia, widespread around the eastern Mediterranean. It seems to confer similar resistance to malaria. It seems probable that many other human genes have evolved in response to selective pressure from malaria and other endemic disease. The SCA mutation is just a good example .
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