Cystic fibrosis is due to cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cystic Fibrosis Tran

Jon's son Gavin and Jake suffers from cystic fibrosis, whooping cough before children 2-3 years old, will unexplained crying, but doctors could not find out what is the reason after checking, then get out of the hospital for further detection of cystic fibrosis This symptoms such as severe fatal. Because children suffering from this disease, so Jon and his wife Pam local Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the United States as a volunteer and fundraising, three years raised USD300, 000 (about NT $ 9 million).
The next will be involved in the activities of local Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta and Tom Kent Rotarians on 2008/10/09, whooping cough please wait.
Cystic fibrosis (Cystic Fibrosis, CF), also known as cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, or cystic fibrosis, a common genetic disease. This disease affects the patient's body, resulting in a gradual movement difficulties and early death. The most common symptom is difficulty breathing because of long-term repeated lung infections caused by other possible whooping cough symptoms include whooping cough sinusitis, stunted growth, whooping cough diarrhea, and infertility.
Cystic fibrosis is the most common and fatal genetic disease occurs most frequently in Europeans or 阿什肯纳兹 among Jews, there will be every 25 Europeans descent into one carriers, whooping cough which makes this disease whooping cough is very common in Europe. Prenatal genetic analysis of amniotic fluid or sweat checking in early childhood can easily diagnose this disease. Although the diagnosis is very simple, but this disease can be cured yet appeared therapy or drugs, most of the patients in twenty or thirty years of age because of lung failure and death, and the only way you can delay only lung transplant. One year after transplant survival whooping cough was 80%, five-year survival rate is 55%.
Cystic fibrosis is due to cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, CFTR) caused by mutations in this gene is responsible for the manufacture of sweat, digestive juices and a variety of mucus. Most of this has a normal a normal gene, but in fact only one of them is enough normal, when this gene is not the two genes can occur when the normal cystic fibrosis This is because the disease is caused by a recessive genetic [1].
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