View that sickle cell trait increases mortality risk challenged

Health experts have long believed that sickle cell gene variants, which occur in about one in 13 African-Americans, increase the risk of premature death, even when people carry only a single copy of the variant. But health records of nearly 50,000 active-duty US Army soldiers between 2011 and 2014 shows that's not the case.

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