Cystic Fibrosis

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Cystic Fibrosis

• Cole Vincent

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Symptoms

• Digestive Symptoms intestinal blockage, poor
  weight gain and height growth
• Respiratory Symptoms coughing, wheezing,
  repeated lung infections, and repeated sinus
  infections.

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Treatments/Cures

• There is no exact treatment for Cystic Fibrosis,
  each patients treatment may vary between
  different airway clearance techniques to loosen
  and get rid of mucus from the lungs.

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Inheritance Pattern

• Cystic Fibrosis is inherited in an autosomal
  recessive pattern.
• Both copies of the gene in each cell have
  mutations

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Type of Mutation

• It is on the 7th chromosome

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Life Limitations

• Cystic fibrosis does not limit your life in any
  way or impair you from doing certain things.
• 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.

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Incidence

• Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease which
  means that one can only get it if his or her
  parents both are carriers.

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Bibliography

• www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/poster
  s/chromosome/cftr.shtml
• http//learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/w
  hataregd/cf/
• http//www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147960.ph
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