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A woman who has sickle cell anemia asks the nurse if her infant will develop sickle cell disease. the nurse would base the answer on which information?

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- Sickle cell anemia is recessively inherited.

Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disease requiring that the person have two genes for the disease, one from each parent.
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