Variations in the between-gene regions have been linked to sickle cell anemia and diabetes.

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Reality for TLC's T-Boz has been a challenge, starting at age 7, when she was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia.

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Meanwhile, genetic carrier tests are more accurate because scientists know more about single gene disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle cell anemia, Faucett said.

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More than any of that, they lost pictures of club parties, of family reunions on Cane River and of their son who died 15 years ago from sickle cell anemia.

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Orekunrin and her family immediately began looking for an air ambulance service to rapidly transport the girl, a sickle cell anemia sufferer, to a more suitable healthcare facility.

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For these kids, suffering from diseases such as hemophilia, sickle cell anemia and cancer, it is a chance to see past the walls of the hospital to what the world might be like if a diagnosis didn't control their every move, if clinics and hospital rooms weren't like second homes.

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Correcting malfunctioning genes could perhaps cure diseases linked to a single gene, such as sickle-cell anemia.

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There was no proof it would help (trials are under way at Stanford, partly sponsored by the SMA Foundation), but it had been safely used before on kids with sickle-cell anemia.

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