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Genotype Testing: Informed love is powerful love.
When it comes to sickle cell, many people don’t fully understand the power of one simple test, a genotype test. For my family, like many others, the realities of genotype compatibility didn’t become clear until after marriage when a foetus had already been formed. My parents didn’t know they both carried the sickle cell gene (AS) and went on to have 5 children. They had their first born my older brother, who turned out to be a carrier...
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blogpostteaser - My name is Daberechi Amaechi, I have Sickle Cell Disease and I’m a mother of three beautiful girls. I am of Nigerian heritage and I grew up in southeast London with my mum, dad, and four other siblings. I was the only one out of five children who had sickle cell, and as a child, I had no clue what it was.