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A familiar story. I have experienced this in my family. My younger brother used to fall sick often so at a time we decided to run a genotype check up on him. After that, the result was sent to my dad's phone at midnight showing that he's SS. After confirmation on the news we were all worried and my mom started praying � from that moment till day break, none of us could ever sleep again, dad was extremely worried. We started contemplating how come the SS, I now told my elder sister that am AS which i happens to know during my first year medical screening and she told me she's AA as well. We started asking questions HOW come, though we never knew our dad's genotype and they don't know their genotypes as well. So the doctor came back to our house that morning with a different result that my brother was AA and not SS. According to him there was an error during laboratory test thou he blamed it on the old laboratory machine. There was surprises and shock all over our faces. Should i say it was a miracle or a mistake.

I think there can still be a way to handle this or there was a laboratory error somewhere at the beginning.

pragmatistm:
Good day family people. Please what can you do in this case?

My neighbour's second child, 5 year old girl that used to fall sick often was just recently confirmed sickle celler much to the surprise of the parents and all of us. But that is not even the issue.

The real issue is that the parents tested to know their genotype before marriage and the father was known to be AS and the mother AA. The woman went to 5 different hospitals and laboratories, government and private, to confim her genotype before committing to marriage with the man. After their marriage and during her two antenatal in the hospital, she tested her blood each time again and her genotype was still confirmed AA. Now suddenly when her daughter was fallen sick often she requested for genotype test for the daughter and it was confirmed she was SS. That made the doctor to ask the mother to go for genotype test again and it turned out as AS.

Please how do you explain this family people and doctors in the house? What do you do to those that conducted the 7 previous tests both in government and private hospitals?