Cystic fibrosis is more common with Caucasians in the United States. The disease occurs in 1 in 2,500 to 3,500 Caucasian newborns.
Some symptoms include: persistent cough, with great physical effort, some difficulty breathing, tiredness or impaired exercise ability, frequent visits to the toilet and loss of salt in a hot shower.
Cystic fibrosis is a recessive disorder, which means that the parents must have the disorder for their children to get the disease.
If the child inherits only one copy of the faulty gene, it means that they will be a carrier.
The gene location for cystic fibrosis is located on human chromosome 7. Mutations in the CFTR