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Cystic Fibrosis

Inheritance patterns and prenatel diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
For a baby to be born with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) both parents must be carriers of the faulty CF gene – a so-called recessive pattern of inheritance. Every baby born to two carriers of a CF gene has a one in four chance of having Cystic Fibrosis.

Prenatal diagnosis
Accurate prenatal, antenatal and carrier testing are possible.

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Medical text written June 2008 by Dr J Littlewood, Chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust Research and Medical Advisory Committee, Bromley, UK.

 

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