镰状细胞

For reasons that are not clear, sickle-cell disease is of very variable severity.

理由是不明确，镰状细胞病是非常严重的变数。

If an individual inherits the mutation in both genes they will have sickle-cell disease.

如果个别继承了在这两个突变基因，他们将有镰状细胞病。

Sickle-cell disease is an inherited blood disorder in which the red blood cells change shape in a characteristic way.

镰状细胞病是一种遗传性血液紊乱，其中红血细胞的变化形成的一个特点。

Sickle-cell disease: an ounce of prevention, a pound of cure

镰状细胞贫血病：1盎司的预防，1磅的治疗

Also infection can produce severe anaemia and an aplastic crisis in people with sickle-cell anaemia or other abnormalities of haemoglobin.

也感染可产生严重贫血和再生障碍性危机的人与镰状细胞贫血或其他异常血红蛋白。

Not as much analysis has been completed on the children's cases, but health officials noted that 6 per cent were kids with sickle-cell disease or another condition from the same family of blood diseases.

没有那么多的分析已经完成了对儿童的个案，但卫生官员指出，百分之6例镰状细胞病或另一血液疾病的同一家庭状况的孩子。

Sickle-cell disease usually shows itself in infancy with Anaemia and Jaundice.

镰状细胞病通常表明本身在起步阶段，与贫血和黄疸。

Sickle-cell disease shows itself mainly in sickling crises, when the shape change has happened.

镰状细胞病表明本身，主要是在sickling危机时，形状发生了变化。

West Africans, and people of West African descent, are susceptible to a disease called sickle-cell anaemia that is virtually unknown elsewhere.

如西非人以及他们的后代易患一种叫做镰状细胞性贫血的疾病，这种病在西非之外几乎都没人听说过。

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. But the area of operation of some of them suggests that they might.

显然，该理论并不如他的镰状细胞/疟疾理论那样具有说服力，因为他尚未证明任何一种致病基因确实能够影响智力，但是某些基因的活动区域显示它们或许真能影响智力。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。