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My blood genotype is |as|, and my wife's blood genotype is also |as|,seeing that we are sickle cell trait carriers, is there a way we can have babies who won't be |ss| (sickle cell)
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Yes, there is 25% chance that the child will be completely normal and 50% chance that the child will have sickle cell trait. But there is 25% chance that the child will have sickle cell disease.
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