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Originally Posted by RavenSong
I'm not quite sure where you got your information, but it's not correct. Cystic fibrosis is not a sex-linked disease. It is an autosomal recessive genetic disease. The gene that causes cystic fibrosis is found on Chromosome 7, an autosomal chromosome (i.e., "non-sex-linked"). It is not found on the X or Y chromosomes.
Girls are diagnosed with CF with the same frequency as boys. Girls with CF also tend to die earlier than boys, although researchers are still unsure why this happens.
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That's true. CF runs in my brother-in-law's family. He had two young cousins (sisters/girls) who died at 14 & 15 .
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Princess Maire-Kate, 10
Princess Hanna, 4
Angel Duenas- 1/8/07 to 8/11/09. I miss my baby boy.
THERE ARE EIGHT DIFFERENT WAYS YOUR CHILD CAN DIE ON A CORDED WINDOW TREATMENT
Read "How Safe Cords Kill" at www.pfwbs.org
THREE CHILDREN HAVE STRANGLED TO DEATH SINCE ANGEL DIED ON 8/11/09.
Brandyn Coppedge died on 9/11/09. Rosie Smith died on 9/30/09 and Thapelo Kwofie died on 11/1/09. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is no longer recommending safety kits. They are now recommending that anywhere children live or visit should be free of corded window products.