Q 1.What is the difference between sickle cell trait and sickle disease?2.Do you feel differently about testing for sickle cell anaemia at birth v. testing for the trait as a young adult? Why?3.Testing before birth can also be done, as early as 10weeks into the pregnancy. This testing looks for the sickle haemoglobin gene, rather than the abnormal haemoglobin that gene makes. Under what circumstances would you support prenatal testing. 4.Does this policy disseminate against athletes with sickle cell trait? Does it discriminate based on race or ethnicity?5.Does this policy make good medical sense? Why or why not? Are there other approaches to avoid sickle cell trait related deaths that don’t involve genetic testing?7.What changes in research on human subjects resulted, directly and indirectly, from the Lacks case?
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