or haemoglobin is a complex protein that contains iron and transports oxygen in red blood cells. Sickle Cell is caused by a mutation in the haemoglobin gene; causing an abnormal hemoglobin ( Hemoglobin S ) which distorts red blood cells into abnormal, and crescent like shapes.
Hemoglobin S is the most common abnormal hemoglobin.
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