genetics and heredity

Sickle Cell Disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disease that occurs due to a mutation in the β-globin gene of hemoglobin. Autosomal meaning that it is not linked to a sex chromosome, so either parent can pass on the gene to their child. This mutation is a result of a single substitution of amino acids, Glutamic for Valine at position 6 of a β globin chain. The presence of this mutation causes

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This mutation paper is to give information on the Sickle Cell disease. This is a negative disease to have because the Sickle Cell Disease decreases the health of the person that has the disease and limits what they can and cannot do. Sickle Cell Disease is a red blood cell disease that causes ab normal hemoglobin to from in the veins. Hemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen throughout the body to help with the respiratory system. The cause of the genetic mutation is inheritance or getting the disease from the parents the disease is found on chromosome 13 while the hemoglobin is still in beta phase on gene HB A. The disease typically shows symptoms within the first 5 to 6 months of birth and being diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease. The symptoms include painful swelling on the hands and feet, and Jaundice, which causes a white color to form under the eyes, and turns the skin color yellow.

The disease is caused by a mutated version of the gene that help makes hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells. Sickle cell is a disorder in the blood caused by abnormal hemoglobin proteins. The abnormal hemoglobin protein caused sickle cell shaped red blood cells. The sickle cell red blood cells are crescent shapes and can clog up very easily in blood canals. In the diagram to the right it shows how a mutation causes a change in the amino acid.

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. This missense mutation is characterized by mutant beta globin subunits that tend to stick together (Cummings, 2014). As a result, abnormally shaped red blood cells are produced by this disorder. The erythrocytes are sickle or crescent shaped. Sickling occurs under hypoxic conditions, in which there is insufficient supply of oxygen delivered throughout the body (Sun & Xia, 2013). In order to inherit this monogenic disease, one copy of the sickle globin gene from each parent must be passed on to the offspring (Ashley-Koch,

The effects of the sickle cell mutation can be traced back to DNA in which the mutated gene is replicated and transcribed to mRNA. This mRNA is then used to synthesize polypeptides in the ribosomes where it translates the mutant genetic code (GUG) which codes for valine. Instead of the genetic code for glutamic acid (GAG) which is the amino acid found in the normal haemoglobin. This causes the haemoglobin to be clumped up together in the red blood cells and depriving them if oxygen causing a sickle shaped cell instead of the normal round, biconcave

Sickle Cell Anaemia is a heredity disorder in which the red blood cells are affected by altering into a mutated-form of haemoglobin, most commonly at low oxygen levels. The altered-form of haemoglobin are crescent-shape; which are not flexible and can easily block the blood flow in smaller blood vessels and arteries (refer to figure 1). When both alleles inherited carry the sickle cell anaemia disease; 100% of the body’s haemoglobin will mutate into the sickle (crescent) shape. Sickle cell disease is the codominance of only one inherited sickled allele, in which; the carrier can pass the disorder but does not express any significant symptoms or the anaemia itself. Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive disorder, thus both alleles must

Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) is a gene mutation that is autosomal recessive and it affects red blood cells. This means that an individual must inherit two copies of the mutated gene for sickle cell anemia to have the disease, one from each parent. To be a carrier, you must possess one copy of a normal gene and one sickle cell gene. This mutation is a substitution or point mutation, meaning one nucleotide is replaced with another. In sickle cell anemia, an adenine is replaced by a thymine. The goal of this investigation was to use gel electrophoresis and a UV light to observe sickle cell anemia. The guiding question was “Which individuals have sickle cell anemia?”. A mother, father, and child’s DNA was tested and compared to known DNA that was

A genetic disorder caused by the abnormal gene for hemoglobin S is called sickle cell anemia. Only replace that take place in glutamic acid is to fill in for valine as the sixth codon of the hemoglobin protein, which alter declines the hemoglobin’s ability transform oxygen throughout your body. The human body needs oxygen in order to function when we eat food and liquid for energy even including muscles, repairs our cells, feeds our brain, breath and nerves. Normal cells are described as round, red, flexible and travel easily throughout your blood vessels. Sickle cell anemia describes a red blood cell that has inflexible, tacky, and create like a crescent moons not like the normal red cells. It tends to slow down or block the blood flows while

Sickle cell anaemia describes a hereditary autosomal recessive disorder that affects a protein found in red blood cells (erythrocytes) called haemoglobin. This disease results in 100% of blood cells becoming sickle shaped. The co-dominant sickle cell disease entails half of the erythrocytes becoming sickle shaped and the remaining half as normal biconvex structures, however, these people are carriers and can pass the disease or anaemia onto their offspring. Prevalence of significant morbidity and mortality of sickle cell disease is clear in Africa, the Mediterranean, India, Central America and the Carribean, with estimates suggesting 250 000 children are born annually with sickle cell anaemia (reference). Haemoglobin ss the autosomal recessive genotype, inherited from both parents, causes the phenotype of sickle cell anaemia. When erythrocytes become rigid and sticky, they cannot flow smoothly through small vessels, consequently, slowing or blocking blood flow and oxygen around the body. This prevents oxygen from reaching vital organs such as the spleen, liver, lugs, heart and kidneys, causing extensive damage as lack of oxygen results in cell death.(1) Sickle cells only live an

Sickle cell anemia is the most famous, prevalent, and the subject of this paper. This blood disease is a genetically inherited blood illness in which the construction of unusually shaped red bloods cells occurs. This happens when a victim of this vicious disease receives two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene from the individual’s parents. Hemoglobin A, A2, and F are the normal forms of hemoglobin in individuals without sickle cell disease or trait. The difference between the normal forms of hemoglobin is the nucleotides that decide which protein is made and how it’s folded. A-type is made up of two alpha chains and two beta chains. A2 is made up of two alpha and delta chains. F is made up of two alpha and gamma chains. Normally, the first six weeks after a child’s birth hemoglobin F is the main source of oxygen transport. After those initial six weeks, A-type hemoglobin takes control of the vascular

A point mutation distinguishes the sickle-cell hemoglobin from the normal adult hemoglobin; in Hb S a valine is substituted in place

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder that occurs due to an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin found in red blood cells which causes the sickle hemoglobin (HbS) to polymerize and form a sickle or a crescent shape instead of the circular shape of healthy red blood cells (Sickle Cell Disease, George). Ribosomes are responsible for the creation of protein in the body, meaning it is most likely that the ribosomes malfunctioned in the creating of the hemoglobin. A lack of healthy blood cells can lead to lack of oxygen and decreased blood flow throughout the body (Sickle cell anemia, mayoclinic.org). This can cause many different

The symptoms of Sickle Cell Anemia were observed for over five thousand years in Africa. The first reported case of sickle cell anemia however was in 1846, when an autopsy of a runaway slave showed an absence of a spleen. However, it was first discovered by Ernest Irons, an intern of Dr James B Herrick in the United States in 1910. He viewed an anemic patient’s blood under the microscope and observed “elongated and sickle shaped” red blood cells. However, cases of these sickle shaped red blood cells were of African patients only. In 1922, the disease was named “sickle cell anemia” by Vernon Mason. Hahn and Gillespie discovered in 1927 that red blood cells are made into sickle shaped cells by the change in their molecular structure in the absence of oxygen. In 1948, Watson suggested that infants did not show symptoms of sickle cell anemia because of the presence of fetal hemoglobin, HbF. In 1949, it was shown that the disease was inherited and that only people homozygous for the gene got the disease. In 1951, Linus Pauling and his colleagues showed that sickle cell anemia was caused by abnormality in hemoglobin and had a different chemical structure than normal hemoglobin molecules. They proved the change in structure of sickled cells through gel electrophoresis of hemoglobin from normal blood cells and sickled blood cells. They published the paper “Sickle Cell Anemia, a molecular disease” that spread awareness of the disease. The actual amino acid change however was