He had sickle-cell disease, and they did a swab for H1N1.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009] Reference

We all think we know that sickle-cell anaemia is a black disease.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Is this the future we really want? Different drugs for different races"] Reference

African-Americans still have sickle-cell after several generations here.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Public Radio show: Understanding Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Syndrome and 100 with sickle-cell anemia, in other words, around 600 babies.    From Wordnik.com.  [PEDIATRICS CONGRESSES] Reference

Contra-indicated in patients with severe chronic depression and sickle-cell anaemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

The quasi-protection afforded by sickle-cell anemia was only tangentially mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic on malaria - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This in turn can cause diseases such as Epidermolysis bullosa and sickle-cell disease.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The panel wants all babies screened for 29 rare medical conditions like sickle-cell anemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2005] Reference

The first autopsy concluded that Anderson died of natural causes as a result of the sickle-cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-Guilty Verdict Of Guards In Juvenile Boot Camp Related Death Deemed "Outrageous"] Reference

My tagline for this movie would be “The Nutty Proffesor 3 will tickle well your sickle-cell”.    From Wordnik.com.  [GREAT IDEA, BOSS!] Reference

And that only comes down to things like skin cancer, sickle-cell anemia and vitamin D production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » New basketball league open to whites only, to get away from the ‘street-ball’ played by ‘people of color.’] Reference

Black populations have been found to carry higher levels of a mutation that leads to sickle-cell anemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil Risch on race] Reference

Robinson is an African-American and so the sickle-cell reference implies a disregard for African-Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [WI-03: GOPer Recycles Robinson's "Sex" And "Masturbation" Ad] Reference

A familiar example is the use of sickle-cell carrier screening to exclude African Americans from certain jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Genome Project] Reference

Turns out that the supervisor was heterozygous for sickle-cell anemia, and a carrier for the malaria parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic on malaria - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Early on, the targets of genetic medicine were rare, single-gene disorders, like sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peering Into the Future] Reference

It was a typical summer-camp moment, except that Keke, like all 124 of her campmates, suffers from sickle-cell anemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [RED WHITE & PROUD] Reference

People with sickle-cell anemia, which often is fatal, inherit two defective genes for the disease, one from each parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem-Cell Research Boosts Hopes] Reference

"Last September, for example, a university student went into kidney failure as a result of sickle-cell anaemia," says Fred.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Then a Giants physical found he had a sickle-cell trait, and head trainer Ronnie Barnes asked for a family medical history.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Adopted Linebacker With an Unlikely Story] Reference

In fact, sickle-cell anaemia is the most common genetic disorder among African Americans; about 1 in every 12 is a carrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference

Traits: As sickle-cell "races" and epicanthic-fold "races" show, there are as many ways to group people as there are traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Is Not Enough] Reference

SINGLE-GENE illnesses -- sickle-cell disease is the most common -- account for an underwhelming 2 percent of total diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dna Isn't Destiny] Reference

So I now spent about ten minutes having to explain what Dembski was actually saying, over sickle-cell guy's repeated objections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Five - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Case in point: there are lots of mutations involving red blood cells–sickle-cell, the thalassemia family, G6PD deficiency, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Public Radio show: Understanding Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

STUART TOLEDANO, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: You should not have internal bleeding strictly from sickle-cell disease or sickle-cell trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2006] Reference

He ruled Anderson died of natural causes, internal bleeding brought on by stressful exercise and complicated by a sickle-cell trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2006] Reference

If the new event were to raise funds solely for sickle-cell anemia or Tay-Sachs research, the baying chorus might well have a point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

West Africans, and people of West African descent, are susceptible to a disease called sickle-cell anaemia that is virtually unknown elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bombshell] Reference

Humans, caught in the same “trench warfare” with malarial parasites, have come up with only one SNP, as in sickle-cell anemia, or thalassemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professor Jerry Coyne Addresses Michael Behe's "response" to Coyne's review of Behe's new book. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The sickle-cell gene is found in equatorial Africa, parts of southern Europe, southern Turkey, parts of the Middle East and much of central India.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Is this the future we really want? Different drugs for different races"] Reference

His thesis is not as strong as the sickle-cell/malaria theory, because he has not proved that any of his disease genes do actually affect intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bombshell] Reference

Some will be a little bad, but tolerated because they come with some benefit think sickle-cell trait, which causes anemia, but protects against malaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Yet, Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute and MIT has shown that iPS cells can successfully treat sickle-cell anemia in mice and Parkinson's disease in rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Stem Cells Finally Deliver?] Reference

Could someone living millions of years in the future figure out the selection pressure keeping the sickle-cell hemoglobin in existance without knowing about malaria?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's meaningless complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Clearly there could be features which were not so well explained–for instance, if sickle-cell was more common in humans whose ancestors inhabited malaria-free areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Public Radio show: Understanding Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Meanwhile, last week the March of Dimes reported that 70 percent of U.S. babies do not receive nine core newborn screening tests for disorders like sickle-cell anemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [EARLY NOTICE] Reference