Frequently asked question: How do parents pass the disease to their children?

Sickle cell disease is autosomal recessive, meaning that you will have the disease if you receive the mutated gene from both parents. As a result, both boys and girls can have this disease, it is not a sex-linked disease.
An example of a sex-linked disease is hemophilia, which is a disease that occurs only in boys.

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