Am dating a lady of 23 years she is a sickle cell carrier but am not should I go a head and marry her.
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If she is just sickle cell carrier, and you have no sickle cell trait, then 50% chance that the child will be sickle cell carrier and 50% chance that child will have normal hemoglobin.
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You must be sure that you are not the carrier of sickle cell, then you may proceed to engage her, in this case 50 percent or above may suffer from less haemoglobin the next generation.
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Sickle cell trait (SCT i.e. being a carrier) does not mean disease. If one parent has SCT, there is a 50% (or 1 in 2) chance that the child will have SCT (not disease) and an equal 50% chance that the child will not have SCT. So yes, you may very well go ahead and marry that young love of yourself and have children free from Sickle cell disease. :) Good luck
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