Notably, sickle cell anemia was the first genetic disease to be examined at the molecular level. The first documented case of sickle cell anemia was published in 1910 by a physician named James ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.