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Why is the incidence of sickle-cell anemia an excellent example of a balanced polymorphism, in which two or more alleles are maintained by natural selection in a population?

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Answer from: adjjones2011

Balanced polymorphism is an occurrence where different phenotypes are maintained at relatively stable frequencies
in the population.
Sickle-cell anemia is a result from a change in the hemoglobin molecule structure. Sickle-cell are red blood cells that are misshapen, reducing their ability to carry oxygen, resulting to anemia.
The quantities of normal and sickled
cells are roughly equal in the heterozygous state. The relatively unchanging frequencies of the sickle-cell heterozygotes and homozygous genotypes make them an excellent example of balanced polymorphism.

Answer from: ijohnh14

There are several explanations for this event.

They may be maintained by heterozygote advantage:

if you only carry one copy of it and live in a place where malaria is common, the allele is advantageous because it confers resistance to malaria.

They may be maintained by mutation

The mutation producing the deleterious allele may keep arising in the population.

They may be maintained by gene flow

As I said before, if you live in an area where the allele helps against malaria the allele will stay in the population. Due to our "globalized" lifestyle, migration causes this gene to be found in populations all over the world.

Natural selection may not have had time to remove them yet

Since our generations are "longer", it is possible that some of the deleterious alleles that we observe in natural populations are on their way out, but selection has not yet completely removed them.

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