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CF and diagnostics
With people carrying both a mutating and a normal CFTR gene (i.e., genetic carriers), is it possible to diagnose whether they are carriers even if they do not have CF? Please reply.
12.01.2009
Stem Cells
Hello, Our first son is affected by Cystic Fibrosis. Currently I am pregnant again and heard about archival storage of stem cells from the umbilical cord. Is there really any sense in investing a lot of money there? Of course we would hope that science might be thus far advanced one day that our ...
13.11.2008
Risk of CF gene in child
I am not carrying the CF gene, but the father is. How big is the chance that my child has the CF gene.
20.11.2008
Cystic Fibrosis
Hello, we have 3 daughters, the one in the middle died 1976 at the age of 5 years of Cystic Fibrosis. The two other children are healthy. The oldest daughter has two healthy children. The youngest daughter would also like to have children. My question: As my wife and I are carriers of the ...
20.11.2008
Another question on the answer of Prof. Stuhrmann-Spangenberg about 7T-allele
Dear Prof. Dr. Stuhrmann-Spangenberg You write as an anwer to a question among other things: "One should make a comment on the genetic variant R117H: this variant can exist on two genetic backgrounds, one so-called 7-T-allele or a 5-T-allele. The latter would be graded as a CF-mutation, the ...
08.01.2009
Inheritance of CF
Dear experts, can you tell me, if a child of parents, both suffering from CF, will be born with CF in any case? Or is there a chance that such a child will be born healthy or as a carrier? Best regards,
16.06.2008
Probability of outbreak
Dear experts, I got the information yesterday that in case of my dauhgter (7 months) 33 mutated genes of rh117 have been detected. Test (OLA POR). She has been named as a healthy carrier of the gene defect. She is told to do a sweat test now. What does that mean? Can this illness break out? ...
15.09.2008
Treatment in Kosovo
Hello, My sister in law and her husband have a 3 year-old, healthy daughter. In August 2007 she gave birth to a son who was suffering from CF and died in December 2007. They like to have more children, now my question: Is there a possibility of prenatal diagnostics? Can this be done in Kosovo? ...
24.04.2008
Heterozygote?
Hello, What does heterozygote mean? The values of my niece are: 3849 + 10 KgC-T Heterozygote und de IS 508 Heterozygote. What do these values mean and with which degree of CF one has to face? My sister is supposed to deliver at the end of May; can she deliver in a simple cottage hospital ...
08.07.2008
Diagnosis during pregnancy
Hello, My sister is in her 6th month of pregnancy. Since there is CF in our family she underwent an amniocentesis and the child carries both defect genes. When the last ultrasound scan was done everything was ok organically (intestine, etc.). Should my sister go the a CF ambulance before birth ...
15.02.2008
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