DUMET Medical DUMET Medical Solved Paper-2009

  • question_answer
    Sickle cell anaemia is

    A)  autosomal dominant inheritance

    B)  X-linked recessive inheritance

    C)  autosomal recessive inheritance

    D)  X-linked dominant inheritance

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease due to \[H{{b}^{S}}\] (mutated) instead of \[H{{b}^{A}}\] (normal) gene and \[\beta \]-chain of haemobin has amino acid valine, instead of glutamic acid in 6th position. The erythrocytes sickle shaped.


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