Compound heterozygosity

You don't need to be Editor-In-Chief to add or edit content to WikiDoc. You can begin to add to or edit text on this WikiDoc page by clicking on the edit button at the top of this page. Next enter or edit the information that you would like to appear here. Once you are done editing, scroll down and click the Save page button at the bottom of the page.

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can.

Two recessive alleles that can cause a particular disease in a heterozygous state. Lets take sickle cell anemia as an example. If you had one allele for hemoglobin S and one allele for hemoglobin C, you would still get the disease even though you are heterozygous for both genes.