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Deaths from Cystic Fibrosis: 485 deaths (NHLBI 1999)
Death Rate extrapolations for USA for Cystic Fibrosis: 484 per year, 40 per month, 9 per week, 1 per day, 0 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second. Note: this extrapolation calculation uses the deaths statistic: 485 deaths (NHLBI 1999)
45 people died from cystic fibrosis in Australia 2000 (Australia's Health 2004, AIHW)
Source(s):RRT
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How frequent is cystic fibrosis?
Cystic Fibrosis affects approximately over 9,000 people in the UK and is the most common genetic disorder. According to the Cystic Fibrosis trusts website, approximately five babies each week are born with Cystic Fibrosis.
What are facts on cystic fibrosis?
-Doctors take a sweat test to see if you have cystic fibrosis.-About 2,500 babies are born with cystic fibrosis each year.
A husband and wife have a son with cystic fibrosis Their second child a daughter does not Prepare a pedigree for this family?
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
What is the probability of a child having cystic fibrosis if one of her parents was homozygous dominant and the other was a carrier for cystic fibrosis?
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.
Is cystic fibrosis an infectious disease?
Good Question. The answer is cystic fibrosis is not contagious, however, people with cystic fibrosis tend to carry bacterial infections that can cause serious issues to other people with CF, so infection control procedures should be used when two or more cystics are around each other. General population folks need not fear of getting cystic fibrosis from others - it's a hereditary disease.
Does cystic fibrosis have extra chromosomes?
No, cystic fibrosis is caused by mutations in the CFTR gene, not by the presence of extra chromosomes. Individuals with cystic fibrosis inherit two faulty copies of the CFTR gene, one from each parent, which leads to the production of a defective CFTR protein that affects the movement of salt and water in and out of cells.
Will the offspring have cystic fibrosis if the mother is FF and father is Ff?
No. Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disease. Each parent would have to be a carrier of a CF mutation and would be Cc.
Do carriers have to have cystic fibrosis?
Carriers of cystic fibrosis do not have the disease themselves, as they possess one normal copy and one mutated copy of the CFTR gene. However, they can pass the mutated gene to their children. For a child to develop cystic fibrosis, they must inherit two copies of the mutated gene, one from each parent. Therefore, while carriers do not have cystic fibrosis, they play a crucial role in its inheritance.
How do you deterime phenotypes?
phenotypes are decided by the alleles for that particular characteristic, by a dominant or two recessive alleles. For example, cystic fibrosis has a recessive allele so the phenotype of cystic fibrosis would only appear if there were two of the recessive allele, one from each parent, were present. A heterozygous carrier of the cystic fibrosis allele would show the phenotype of not having cystic fibrosis. So to determine the phenotype simply find out which allele is dominant and find what alleles each parent has the the probability of each phenotype can be calculated
How many people have cystic fibrosis in the US?
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 worldwide). http://www.cff.org/
Cystic fibrosis autosomal dominant?
hey I'm not positive but I believe that Cystic Fibrosis is autosomal. My reasonning for this is that there seems to be an equal number of females that have cystic fibrosis as there are males. I AM NOT POSITIVE.
What is survival rate for Cystic Fibrosis?
Cystic Fibrosis is a life threatening genetic disorder. More children are living into adulthood with better treatment options. The death rate is 100 percent, when the lungs and pancreas quit functioning.
