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My baby has sickle cell trait but me and her dad do not. Although, both of our grandmothers do.
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It means you both are heterozygous for sickle cell trait. And both of you passed that gene to your baby, hence your baby is affected.
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Inheritance from grand mothers can be there.
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It may happen that certain disease genes may remain dormant in one generation but appear in another.
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