Sickle cell disease, also called sickle cell anemia, is a genetic condition that deforms red blood cells.

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It's on the gene for hemoglobin and the hemoglobin that you produce if you have sickle cell anemia is not quite right because there's one base difference.

这个缺陷基因和血红蛋白有关,如果你有镰状红细胞贫血症,那你所产生的血红蛋白就不太正常,因为这里有一个碱基不同

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Sickle cell anemia is a disease that affects a subset of the population.

镰状红细胞贫血症,是一种作用于特定人群的疾病

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We talked about sickle cell anemia last time, that's an example.

上次我们讲过镰刀状贫血病,那就是一例

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This particular example involves the gene for sickle cell anemia.

本例子中就包括镰状红细胞贫血症的基因

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