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In the 1980's, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell ""mild"" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to

Kinship --- Genetic disorders --- Sickle cell anemia --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Congenital diseases --- Disorders, Genetic --- Disorders, Inherited --- Genetic diseases --- Hereditary diseases --- Inherited diseases --- Diseases --- Medical genetics --- Drepanocytic anemia --- Meniscocytosis --- Sickle cell disease --- Blood hyperviscosity syndrome --- Hemoglobinopathy --- Hemolytic anemia --- Health aspects --- Social aspects --- Patients --- Services for --- Genetic aspects. --- Africa. --- African anthropology. --- African genetics. --- African sicklers. --- Albert Royer Children's Hospital. --- CNTS. --- Centre nationale de transfusion sanguine. --- DNA haplotypes. --- DNA sequences. --- HbAS. --- International Organization for the Fight against Sickle Cell. --- National Blood Transfusion Center. --- OILD. --- RFLP. --- Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism. --- Senegal. --- Senegalese attitudes. --- Senegalese sickle cell. --- alternative care. --- biological expressions. --- biosocial politics. --- culture. --- disease experiences. --- disease expression. --- economic austerity. --- economically triaged care. --- ethnic population purity. --- fagara. --- genetic difference. --- genetic sequence. --- geneticists. --- global health problems. --- global health. --- healing practices. --- health intervention. --- health. --- healthy sicklers. --- heterozygous sickle cell. --- low-tech strategy. --- multilateral institutions. --- normalization techniques. --- patient advocacy. --- political apathy. --- population. --- public health. --- public neglect. --- self-care. --- sickle cell DNA markers. --- sickle cell anemia. --- sickle cell gene. --- sickle cell research. --- sickle cell trait. --- sicklers. --- social networks. --- traditional plants. --- vitality.