Why You Should Know your Genotype Before Considering Getting Married

A lot of Medical doctors and marriage counselors advise that couples who are about to get married should go for specific medical tests before tying the knot.
While this is very important, many couples don't heed this advice for fear of probably incompatible results, especially as regards their haemoglobin genotype, emerging to become a reason for not getting married after such a long and deep emotional investment into each other (it can be very heart-breaking and some people might go into depression that would require psychiatric care if they're compelled to cut off the relationship and marriage after such a long time of planning about their future together).

Instead of waiting till you meet that special half with whom you will spend your lifetime before realizing the importance of such specific medical tests, why not go for these medical tests now that you're probably single or have not met that special someone yet?

Whether you're a man or woman, you should undergo a haemoglobin genotype test now before you meet your lifetime partner when it might either be too late or the outcome of your incompatibility could drive you into a mental breakdown.

The Importance of knowing your Haemoglobin genotype

There are several disease variants of the haemoglobin gene, but the commonest ones are haemoglobin S and C. The normal haemoglobin gene present in adult humans is A which exist as AA.

However, some people have the A and S pairing as AS; some have the S and another S pairing as SS which is known as sickle cell disease; and a few people have S and C pairing to form SC which is also as bad as SS.

If your haemoglobin genotype test comes out as AS, SS or SC, it means you can give birth to a child with SS if you marry someone who is AS or SS. For instance, if a man with AS marries a woman with AS, one in every 4 children they have will be SS. But that's probability in theory. In reality that one child could be the first child; and that one child in every 4 children could manifest as 4 children in every 16 children, meaning the first 4 children can be SS and the couple has to give birth to more than 10 children to stand a chance of having a child who is either AA or AS!

Thats huge!!

Taking care of a child who is SS can be a nightmare especially for couples who don't have the financial capacity; and even for those with the financial resources, the child may still die from a crisis or complication that can occur when nobody expects it. Hence, knowing your haemoglobin genotype before entering a relationship that could lead to marriage will enable you talk about it with your partner, and if you're incompatible, the possibility of marriage can easily be ruled out at this early stage of the relationship, unlike when you're getting to know your haemoglobin genotype after proposal and the wedding is a few weeks away!

What's your genotype? Go find out today!

http://www.michaeldoosblog.info/2017/02/why-you-should-know-your-genotype.html

Very important

AA all the way but malaria too de disturb AA

ok

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Paulpaulpaul:
AA all the way but malaria too de disturb AA

true talk. am AA

Very important!!!

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AA.. AS..SS

Everybody for my house na AA

SS

And one deluded fellow who attended Shiloh 2016 or some other religious brainwash festival, having an AS genotype, will go right ahead and marry someone with an AS, AC, or even SS or SC genotype, and then proclaim "MY CASE IS DIFFERENT" or whatever silly slogan the "man of God " has bestowed on them for that year

The Pentecostals call this kinda imbecilic behaviour "a leap of faith"

I call it "self-destruct"

In fact sef, there should be a law criminalizing the act of any two people with the S or C In their genotype marrying each other....if they do, they should also be charged with murder if they beget SS kids, because they understood there is a possibility of them bearing an SS kid who may go through a lot of pain and then a premature and painful death all because his parents refused to have sense, or had sense but refused to use it

Team AA

AA...

Nicely put... Love alone isn't enough reason to get married to that special person.

my own na X X.

AM STILL WAITING FOR MY MOTHER INLAW TO COMMENT 1ST...AM STILL WAITING FOR HER TO FINISH COOKING...

Dis should even be d first criteria before any marriage... Some Nigerians underestimate these series of test.. Know your blood group Nigerians
D poster above me though... Wetin concern Ur mother inlaw??

please know your haemoglobin b4 u fall in love.... ss is not a easy thing.

I was glad i had to read the message
let me ask my Gf her status asap
no dulling

What about AC genotype?

Team AA! But wait oo, i have not heard of SC before.

zuby4real10:
my own na X X.

chromosomes found in female

So ss patients are nightmares. You don.t help to give these people confidence. You make it sound as a plaque to other people

nbright:
Everybody for my house na AA

Moi Aussi!

Op, Nice One! It's very important!

donmayorgroup:
Why You Should Know your Genotype Before Considering Getting Married

A lot of Medical doctors and marriage counselors advise that couples who are about to get married should go for specific medical tests before tying the knot.
While this is very important, many couples don't heed this advice for fear of probably incompatible results, especially as regards their haemoglobin genotype, emerging to become a reason for not getting married after such a long and deep emotional investment into each other (it can be very heart-breaking and some people might go into depression that would require psychiatric care if they're compelled to cut off the relationship and marriage after such a long time of planning about their future together).

Instead of waiting till you meet that special half with whom you will spend your lifetime before realizing the importance of such specific medical tests, why not go for these medical tests now that you're probably single or have not met that special someone yet?

Whether you're a man or woman, you should undergo a haemoglobin genotype test now before you meet your lifetime partner when it might either be too late or the outcome of your incompatibility could drive you into a mental breakdown.

The Importance of knowing your Haemoglobin genotype

There are several disease variants of the haemoglobin gene, but the commonest ones are haemoglobin S and C. The normal haemoglobin gene present in adult humans is A which exist as AA.

However, some people have the A and S pairing as AS; some have the S and another S pairing as SS which is known as sickle cell disease; and a few people have S and C pairing to form SC which is also as bad as SS.

If your haemoglobin genotype test comes out as AS, SS or SC, it means you can give birth to a child with SS if you marry someone who is AS or SS. For instance, if a man with AS marries a woman with AS, one in every 4 children they have will be SS. But that's probability in theory. In reality that one child could be the first child; and that one child in every 4 children could manifest as 4 children in every 16 children, meaning the first 4 children can be SS and the couple has to give birth to more than 10 children to stand a chance of having a child who is either AA or AS!

Thats huge!!

Taking care of a child who is SS can be a nightmare especially for couples who don't have the financial capacity; and even for those with the financial resources, the child may still die from a crisis or complication that can occur when nobody expects it. Hence, knowing your haemoglobin genotype before entering a relationship that could lead to marriage will enable you talk about it with your partner, and if you're incompatible, the possibility of marriage can easily be ruled out at this early stage of the relationship, unlike when you're getting to know your haemoglobin genotype after proposal and the wedding is a few weeks away!

What's your genotype? Go find out today!

http://www.michaeldoosblog.info/2017/02/why-you-should-know-your-genotype.html

I knew it would be another crappy write up with little knowledge of genetics

miqos03:
true talk. am AA

And ur moniker sounds like mosquito

Luckily, everyone in my house is AA.

Ladies be like, if I hear. With dis scarcity of husband in Nigeria?

donmayorgroup:
Why You Should Know your Genotype Before Considering Getting Married

A lot of Medical doctors and marriage counselors advise that couples who are about to get married should go for specific medical tests before tying the knot.
While this is very important, many couples don't heed this advice for fear of probably incompatible results, especially as regards their haemoglobin genotype, emerging to become a reason for not getting married after such a long and deep emotional investment into each other (it can be very heart-breaking and some people might go into depression that would require psychiatric care if they're compelled to cut off the relationship and marriage after such a long time of planning about their future together).

Instead of waiting till you meet that special half with whom you will spend your lifetime before realizing the importance of such specific medical tests, why not go for these medical tests now that you're probably single or have not met that special someone yet?

Whether you're a man or woman, you should undergo a haemoglobin genotype test now before you meet your lifetime partner when it might either be too late or the outcome of your incompatibility could drive you into a mental breakdown.

The Importance of knowing your Haemoglobin genotype

There are several disease variants of the haemoglobin gene, but the commonest ones are haemoglobin S and C. The normal haemoglobin gene present in adult humans is A which exist as AA.

However, some people have the A and S pairing as AS; some have the S and another S pairing as SS which is known as sickle cell disease; and a few people have S and C pairing to form SC which is also as bad as SS.

If your haemoglobin genotype test comes out as AS, SS or SC, it means you can give birth to a child with SS if you marry someone who is AS or SS. For instance, if a man with AS marries a woman with AS, one in every 4 children they have will be SS. But that's probability in theory. In reality that one child could be the first child; and that one child in every 4 children could manifest as 4 children in every 16 children, meaning the first 4 children can be SS and the couple has to give birth to more than 10 children to stand a chance of having a child who is either AA or AS!

Thats huge!!

Taking care of a child who is SS can be a nightmare especially for couples who don't have the financial capacity; and even for those with the financial resources, the child may still die from a crisis or complication that can occur when nobody expects it. Hence, knowing your haemoglobin genotype before entering a relationship that could lead to marriage will enable you talk about it with your partner, and if you're incompatible, the possibility of marriage can easily be ruled out at this early stage of the relationship, unlike when you're getting to know your haemoglobin genotype after proposal and the wedding is a few weeks away!

What's your genotype? Go find out today!

http://www.michaeldoosblog.info/2017/02/why-you-should-know-your-genotype.html

Kai I remember my former neighbour with 3 kids and all were SS. They all died b4 age 10 in a space of 3yrs.
The wife pick race and the man later remarried an AA. It's very important to check ur genotype to avoid story that touch.

Paulpaulpaul:
AA all the way but malaria too de disturb AA

But you can control it, avoid mosquito, always use mosquito treated net, I was like that until I cultivated the habit of taking preventive measures. We are born to assist other genotypes. I have three friends to ss.