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Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a very serious, and very rare, X-linked recessive genetic disease, striking about 1/380,000 infants. Affected children develop neuromuscular and intellectual disabilities, severe gout, and uncontrollably harm themselves, it gets progressively worse and they die in childhood. A woman had a brother who died in childhood of the disease. She marries a man with no family history of the disease. She is pregnant with their first child and the ultrasound reveals that she is carrying a boy. What is the chance of him having the disease?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a very serious, and very rare, X-linked recessive genetic disease, striking about 1/380,000 infants. Affected children develop neuromuscular and intellectual disabilities, severe gout, and uncontrollably harm themselves, it gets progressively worse and they die in childhood. A woman had a brother who died in childhood of the disease. She marries a man with no family history of the disease. She is pregnant with their first child and the ultrasound reveals that she is carrying a boy. What is the chance of him having the disease?
Elin HesselLv2
29 Sep 2019
