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Sickle-cell anemia is caused by a mutation of one nucleotide in a gene. The type of mutation that causes sickle-cell anemia is known as.

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As mentioned, sickle-cell anemia is the result of a change in a single nucleotide, and it represents just one class of mutations called point mutations

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