This condition can result in acute chest syndrome in adults and jaundice in teenagers, but there is no cure for it. The drug hydroxyurea is used to treat its symptoms, the most major of which is generalized body pain. Affecting one in twelve African-Americans, it is caused by the substitution of a valine for a glutamic acid in an abnormal form of hemoglobin, HbS, which causes red blood cells to clump together and obstruct circulation in the body. For 10 points, name this disorder that takes its name from the shape of these red blood cells.
This condition can result in acute chest syndrome in adults and jaundice in teenagers, but there is no cure for it. The drug hydroxyurea is used to treat its symptoms, the most major of which is generalized body pain. Affecting one in twelve African-Americans, it is caused by the substitution of a valine for a glutamic acid in an abnormal form of hemoglobin, HbS, which causes red blood cells to clump together and obstruct circulation in the body. For 10 points, name this disorder that takes its name from the shape of these red blood cells.
This condition can result in acute chest syndrome in adults and jaundice in teenagers, but there is no cure for it.
{sickle-cell} anemia [or {sickle-cell} disease, etc]