Summary
One in four.
Those are the odds that a couple, both carriers of the gene for cystic fibrosis, will bear a child that has the disease.See the full content of this document
Extract
Wrongful Birth: A Question of Choice
For a Maryland couple who already had one CF child, those odds weren't good enough. They knew they both carried the recessive delta F508 mutation - which causes one of the most severe forms of the disease - and they wanted to make sure they would not have to go through the same anguish twice.
So when the wife became pregnant for a second time in 1999, the couple had genetic testing performed on the fetus - and terminated the pregnancy when those tests indicated that the fetus had CF.And when the wife became pregnant a third time in 2001, the...See the full content of this document
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