Sickle cell disease

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Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder in which red blood cells become crescent or sickle-shaped instead of their normal round, disc-like form. This shape change occurs because of a mutation in the gene that produces hemoglobin, the protein responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body.

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