Thursday, February 19, 2009

How does a person inherit Cystic Fibrosis? Is it dominant or recessive? Is it genetic or chromosomal?

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disesase. If you have CF then both of your alleles are affected. If you are a carrier then you only have one affected allele. In order to acquire this diesease both parents must be carriers, one parent must have CF the other a carrier, or both parents have CF.

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