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The Same Way Any other person would get CF (Cystic Fibrosis), although it's Very Rare For African Americans to get it. Cystic Fibrosis is most common among Caucasians.
Assuming that each parent is a carrier for cystic fibrosis (has the genotype Ff), the probability that their second child will develop cystic fibrosis is one fourth. The probability doesn't change with the number of children they have. For each pregnancy, the chance that the child will have cystic fibrosis (have the genotype ff) is exactly the same.
To have cystic fibrosis both parents have to be a carrier. Each parent passes on one of their genes to their children; they each have one healthy and one cystic fibrosis gene. The child with cystic fibrosis receives a cystic fibrosis gene from each parent. The other child has at least one healthy gene if she does not have cystic fibrosis, though she could be a carrier. hope it would help
No. Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disease. Each parent would have to be a carrier of a CF mutation and would be Cc.
Cystic fibrosis can't be "caught". It is an inherited disease passed down in the genes to family members.
i would say yes. if both parents have the faulty gene there is a 25% chance that their child will have CF. hope this helps
The genotype of a person with CF is cc. The genotype of a carrier of a CF mutation is Cc.
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis is genetic and is not contagious A person gets it when he/she inherits two mutated genes off each parent. A healthy couple can have a child with Cystic fibrosis because the parents would be carriers of the disease (even though they are unaffected by it themselves). 25% of children are at risk of the disease as it can be passed down from previous generations.
Unfortunately, cystic fibrosis cannot be cured by prayer. If it could be cured by prayer, the disease would have disappeared a long time ago, because there are a great many people praying all the time. We have a great abundance of prayer, in this world. But we still have cystic fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, therefore, neither male nor female is more likely to inherit the disease. There are four different scenarios that can occur to "pass on" the disease. First, both parents have CF, and in this scenario all offspring would have CF as well. Second, One parent has CF and the other doesn't. This scenario has two subgroups. The parent that does not have CF could either be a carrier or have no CF gene. If the non-CF parent is a carrier then 3 out of 4 children would inherit CF. If the non-CF parent is not a carrier then 2 of 4 children would inherit it. Third, both parents are carriers, and in this scenario 2 of 4 offspring would inherit CF. Fourth, one parent is a carrier and the other is not. This would yield 1 out of 4 offspring inheriting CF. The genes for CF are located on non-sex chromosomes (autosomes) and therefore there is no correlation to Cystic Fibrosis and sex.
Yes, since the disease is a recessive inherted trait BOTH parents must carry the gene but will not have the disease itself. Approximately 30,000 people in the United States have cystic fibrosis. An additional ten million more-or about one in every 31 Americans-are carriers of the defective CF gene, but do not have the disease. The disease is most common in Caucasians, but it can affect all races.