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What is the cause for sickle-cell anemia?

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Sickle cell anaemia is caused by a mutant recessive allele on chromosome 11. That defective haemoglobin under goes polymerisation under law oxygen tension and changes the shape of RBC to sickle-shaped elongated cell.

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