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Hemoglobin SC disease
Author(s) -
Moll Stephan,
Orringer Eugene P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of hematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1096-8652
pISSN - 0361-8609
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1096-8652(199704)54:4<313::aid-ajh9>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - chapel , citation , library science , classics , medicine , history , art history , computer science
Hemoglobin SC disease (hgb SC) is the second most common type of sickle cell disease. It is usually a milder type of sickle cell than sickle cell anemia (hgb SS). People with hgb SC have 1 sickle cell gene and 1 hemoglobin C gene (another type of abnormal hemoglobin). These genes were passed on to the child from the parents. Your child was born with this disease. It can not be spread to other people. Hgb SS can only be passed to a child through the parent’s genes.