Talk:Hereditary spherocytosis

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[edit] Hereditary

Hereditary sphercytosis is a disease; spherocytosis is a morphological characteristic of RBCs in certain diseases. Since they are not the same thing and there are multiple diseases that can cause sphercytosis of red blood cells, I don't believe this article should be merged.--Jfurr1981 06:25, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Please see the comments at Talk:Spherocytosis. In short, I believe that we ought to merge literally common elements--such as most Symptoms--into the more general article and leave specifically hereditary elements of hereditary sphercytosis in this article.--ojo 2006-01-03@22h02m(UTC)

[edit] Dominant

Not all HS is dominant; some uncommon forms are recessive. Source: [1]--User:Yoyo 18:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)