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Why is it that only one person in every 900 has cystic fibrosis?
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∙ 11y ago
because some people may be a carrier and some people may be unaware that they have it.
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What is the probability of two healthy people where one is a carrier being parents to a child born with cystic fibrosis?
If only one person is a carrier of cystic fibrosis than there is no chance of having a child with it. Both parents have to be carriers and even then there is only a 25% chance. If only one carries than there is a 50% chance that their children will carry but will not have cystic fibrosis.
Can you get Cystic fibrosis?
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease and can only be inherited through genes. It all depends on your parents alleles. Let's say that the allele for cystic fibrosis is c. If your Mum has the allele Cc it means she is hetrozygous. If you Dad has the same allele he is also hetrozygous. When they had children, the two small c's could come together to make a child with the alleles cc. (This means that the child has cystic fibrosis and has homozygous reccessive alleles.) When they had children their alleles could also come together to make CC (homozygous dominant- this means that person doesn't carry an allele for cystic firbrosis and will never get it. This means that if that person had children with another person who has the alleles CC, their child wouldn't get it), or it could make a child with Cc alleles. The child with Cc alleles wouldn't get cystic fibrosis because the allele big C (dominant allele) over powers the allele small c (reccessive- the cystic fibrosis allele). Although this person doesn't have cystic fibrosis their children might because they carry the allele for cystic fibrosis, which is c.
Is it true or false that cystic fibrosis is a transmittable disease in the lungs?
Cystic Fibrosis is not contagouse because it is a genetic dissorder (you can only have it if you have the genes that give people CF)
Why do only white people get cystic fibrosis?
Most white Europeans do not get cystic fibrosis. There is, however, a greater occurence of the recessive gene responsible for cystic fibrosis in Caucasians and Ashkanezi Jews than other races.
Does a double lung transplant cure cystic fibrosis?
Yes but unfortuently this only delays their death. It is possible that people with Cystic Fibrosis are unable to have a lung transplant. My friends mom had Cystic Fibrosis and moved to get a transplant but couldn't and was suffering couldn't live with it anymore, so she passed.
How did Elvis Presley get cystic fibrosis?
nobody "gets" CF - one is born with the condition - its a hereditary genetic illness that is not contagious. Elvis never had Cystic Fibrosis... the only CF he had was "Cool Flares" ;-)
Can people be carriers of cystic fibrosis and not know?
There are no symptoms or anything in a carrier of cystic fibrosis. The only way to find out is to get tested, or if you have a child with cystic fibrosis, you must be a carrier, as well as your partner.
What does cystic fibrosis have to do with heredity?
cystic fibrosis is hereditary but your children will only have a chance at having it if there are at least four children its a one in four kinda thing but they will need to get tested for being a carrier of the cf gene
How can you get cystic fibrosis?
For a baby to be born with Cystic Fibrosis, both parents must be carriers of the faulty CF gene. Where both parents carry the faulty gene, each child has a one in four chance of having CF, a two in four chance of being a carrier and a one in four chance of not having any CF genes.
What resaerch is being done on cystic fibrosis?
Unfortunately, cystic fibrosis cannot be cured. There is medication getting better all the time but now, the government in the UK have not funded in any cure. This means that in the UK, we may only find a cure if a devoted medical professional actually spent his own time to find the cure
What are some facts about cystic fibrosis?
More than 1,000 different mutations in the CFTR gene have been identified in cystic fibrosis patients. The most common mutation (observed in 70% of cystic fibrosis patients) is a three-base deletion in the DNA sequence, causing an absence of a single amino acid in the protein product. About 2,500 babies are born with cystic fibrosis in the U.S. each year. More than 10 million Americans carry the cystic fibrosis gene but don't know it.
What is mecer infection for cystic fibrosis?
the only thing I can think of is MRSA or MERSA as doctors sometimes call it
