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Expalin why a child can have sickle anemia even if neither parent has the disease

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Both parents could have the sickle cell gene (trait). And as you know, genes are passed down from parent to child, so when both parents pass the sickle cell trait down to the child, the child gets the actual sickle cell anemia.
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