A husband and wife,each with sickle cell disease,are thinking about having a baby and want to understand the risk that the baby will have the disease.Which of the following best describes this risk?

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Sickle cell disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. If both parents have the disease, they each have two copies of the mutated gene. Therefore, all of their children will inherit one mutated gene from each parent, resulting in a 100% chance of having the disease.

A Husband and Wife,each with Sickle Cell Disease,are Thinking About