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Either your mom or your dad had to be a carrier for you to be a carrier I thought - unless it is some quirky genetic mutation (not a geneticist so I don't know if that is even possible).
I do believe that since your husband is not, that means your babies have a chance of being a carrier but would not actually have it. That's how I understood it when the whole screening/testing thing was explained to me, but it turned out neither I nor my husband were carriers, and we were only tested during my first pregnancy so I'm not sure if I am remembering clearly.
Do you have a genetic counselor you can talk to? Or maybe just call back into your OB to get some clarification?
I do believe that since your husband is not, that means your babies have a chance of being a carrier but would not actually have it. That's how I understood it when the whole screening/testing thing was explained to me, but it turned out neither I nor my husband were carriers, and we were only tested during my first pregnancy so I'm not sure if I am remembering clearly.
Do you have a genetic counselor you can talk to? Or maybe just call back into your OB to get some clarification?
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WSS^ If you are a carrier but your husband is not, your babies will not have CF. However, they can be carriers and will have to be tested themselves when they have children with their partners to see if they will have children with CF.
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that's what i thought she kept telling me "your test results are wrong" it was a little annoying that she couldn't accept the fact one of them may be a carrier and just not know. (she has 2 other childern so I figured if she didn't know she might want to know so that she can tell the others if she wishes) I guess I'll have to talk to my OB again. It took us 3 or so months just for my husbands results to be read to us so i feel like they would just give us a pamphlet
Yeah, I was given a bunch of pamphlets in my 'congratz on expecting' kit from my OB's office, and there were several on various genetic conditions. Hope you get more infos from your provider - and it is pretty common for our mom's to be in denial over things like this it seems. I don't think testing was very routine for this until relatively recently, so it would be no wonder that she wouldn't know if she or your father were carriers! Nothing to be ashamed of, but sometimes moms are weird, right?
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I had the same situation as you. I am a carrier and my husband is not, meaning that our baby will have a 25% of being a carrier, 0% of having CF though. I know my mom is not a carrier because she tested negative the last time she was pregnant, so it just leaving my dad. He must be a carrier as well but since my mom tested negative, he never had to test and never knew.
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Ur parents do not half to be carriers. I have two cousins with cf. So I always wondered about this I am the only one in my family that is positve with the gene. But for it to afffect our baby my husband would also have to be positve. He is not. You can pass the gene down however so it is something to get educaated about!questions feel ffrree to inbox me.
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Hm, wouldn't the chance of your baby being a carrier be 50%, not 25%? You have one CF gene and one non-CF gene, baby could inherit either. Not that it matters much at this stage as long as the chance of having the disease is 0%!
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Its good to know about, as it can be a really hard diease to leave with. Though I would like to point out that both my cousins are almost in their late 20's when they were told they wouldn't live past 16. If you can get tested for it, its always nice to be.
No, it is 50% chance of being a carrier isn't it?
If you are a carrier you have two genes one positive and one negative
your partner has two negative genes.
Possible combinations are:
One positive one negative
One negative one negative
one positive one negative
one negative one negative.
Out of the four possible ways the gene could be transmitted, two of them include a positive gene, therefore being a carrier. None of them involve two positive genes so the child can't be a sufferer of CF
If it is genetic surely the OPs father must be a carrier? If not how does that work?
If you are a carrier you have two genes one positive and one negative
your partner has two negative genes.
Possible combinations are:
One positive one negative
One negative one negative
one positive one negative
one negative one negative.
Out of the four possible ways the gene could be transmitted, two of them include a positive gene, therefore being a carrier. None of them involve two positive genes so the child can't be a sufferer of CF
If it is genetic surely the OPs father must be a carrier? If not how does that work?
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This article explains some of the genetics of CF.
https://www.cfmedicine.com/htmldocs/CFText/genetics.htm
In theory you could be the first person to have the mutation in your genes and so become a carrier this way, however this is far more unlikely than that one of your parents was a carrier as genetic mutations are carried over easily but not that commonly formed luckily.
https://www.cfmedicine.com/htmldocs/CFText/genetics.htm
In theory you could be the first person to have the mutation in your genes and so become a carrier this way, however this is far more unlikely than that one of your parents was a carrier as genetic mutations are carried over easily but not that commonly formed luckily.
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