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How does sickle cell disease help protect against malaria
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How does sickle cell disease help protect against malaria

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if sickle cells inherit 2 faulty copies gene for the oxygen carrying protein. the faulty gene persists because even carrying 1 copy of it confers some resistance to malaria.
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