-Doctors take a sweat test to see if you have cystic fibrosis.-About 2,500 babies are born with cystic fibrosis each year.
Depends. If your mother has cystic fibrosis and your father is a carrier, there is a 50% chance that any of their children will have cystic fibrosis. If the father is not a carrier, no children will have cystic fibrosis, but they will all be carriers.
Cystic Fibrosis, is a recessive disease (meaning that both parents must be carriers of the cystic fibrosis gene, for the offspring to have a chance of being born with it). A child has a 25% chance (1/4) of being born with 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.
Cystic fibrosis can be detected days after birth in several ways: Babies can present with symptoms particular to CF or they can be screened for CF as part of a state/provincial health policy. The 'sweat' test is often used as a determinant of CF.
Most people who have this disease die around 35 .
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" ;-)
According to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust's website:Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK's most common life-threatening inherited diseases.Cystic Fibrosis affects over 9,000 people in the UK.Over two million people in the UK carry the faulty gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis - around 1 in 25 of the population.If two carriers have a child, the baby has a 1 in 4 chance of having Cystic Fibrosis.Cystic Fibrosis affects the internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus. This makes it hard to breathe and digest food.Each week, five babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis.
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.
this is so false, no he did not
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.
If both parents are carriers on cystic fibrosis, just because two children may have the disease it doesn't mean that say,a further 3 children in future will be "normal". Inheriting genes is like a lottery. I can say though that because cystic fibrosis is recessive, every offspring born under carriers will always have a 75% chance of being phenotypically normal.