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SkinniestPhallus t1_j1b9156 wrote

Reply to comment by dasteek9 in Super Bowl winner Ronnie Hillman dies aged 31 after cancer battle by abunchofjerks

That's such an unfortunate genetic trait. There's a larger chance you get protected from malaria, but there's a lesser chance you also get sickle cell. Fucking brutal. Out of curiosity does having the allele twice provide stronger protection against malaria, the same level, less or none at all?

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captaincumsock69 t1_j1bh8n5 wrote

I believe having sickle cell anemia actually makes your chances of surviving malaria worse

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