Can white Europeans get sickle cell anemia?

Sickle cell trait is an inherited blood disorder that affects 1 million to 3 million Americans and 8 to 10 percent of African Americans. Sickle cell trait can also affect Hispanics, South Asians, Caucasians from southern Europe, and people from Middle Eastern countries. read more

The white gene pool has some sickle cell in it. Remember, that old racist Strom Thurmond, who was railing against desegration on the floor of Congress while he would go home and be tapping a little brown sugar in the Slave House. read more

Sickle cell trait can also affect Hispanics, South Asians, Caucasians from southern Europe, and people from Middle Eastern countries. More than 100 million people worldwide have sickle cell trait. read more