What does cystic fibrosis?

"Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease. That means that if both parents have cystic fibrosis, so will any children that they have. If one parent has cystic fibrosis and the other...

a child with cf has parents which 'carry' the cf gene therefore they do not have it

Yes, since the disease is a recessive inherted trait BOTH parents must carry the gene but not nessacarily have the disease itself. Approximately 30,000 people in the United States have cystic...

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease and can only be inherited through genes.It all depends on your parents alleles. Let's say that the allele for cystic fibrosis is c. If your Mum has the allele Cc...

cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease which means you can only get the disorder passed on to you from your parents. However because the CF allele is recessive both parents have to be carriers and...