purplefam99 said:

morningsong said:

Neither of my children have the anemia so it all worked out. My kids now want their test done. But I'm not sure which one they want to do.

I considered the NatGeo one but iirc they don't give a lot of information about recent ancestry but goes further back, like about 500 or more years.

Do your children carry the trait. If they do and they have a child with someone who is also a carrier of the trait, then that child would have sickle cell. I believe it was explained to me that way. We as Carriers don't have the disease just the trait. I'm am glad they are healthy. The Natgeno, was really really interesting and yes went back far. Mine was more diverse than I anticipated. They don't give any medical stuff tho. I didnt want To see that

Honestly I don't know, the kind of testing they did when I was in school, they stopped doing when my kids were in school and I never had one done on them. Other health concerns took priority. I assume they probably would though, it's not uncommon. It's like anything else, both parents can have the trait and none of their children can be born with sickle cell, each child would have 50/50 odds, the same odds as being born without so much as the trait. It was explained that the trait is a defensive mutation. Unfortunately, it the combination of both traits that cause the disease.

Correction, 25% odds of anemia or no trait and 50 /50 of having the trait. I

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