A genetic counselor assesses a couple planning to have children. Both parents are asymptomatic carriers of the sickle-cell allele (). The father has blood group () and the mother has blood group (). What is the probability that their first child will be a carrier of the sickle-cell trait and also have a blood group that can safely receive red blood cells from a type () donor without transfusion agglutination?
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The probability that the child is both a sickle-cell carrier and compatible with type A donor blood is (or ).
Crossing two sickle-cell carriers () gives a probability of producing a carrier child (). Crossing a parent of blood type () with a parent of type () yields offspring with blood types () or (), each with a probability of . For red blood cell transfusion from a type donor, only type offspring can receive the blood safely because type offspring possess anti-A antibodies that would cause agglutination. Since the two gene loci assort independently, the overall combined probability is (or ).
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Application of Mendel's laws of independent assortment to human medical genetic counseling involving disease carriers and ABO blood transfusion compatibility.