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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...