If one of your parents has the disease, what is the probability that you, too, will have the disease?
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50/50  \n\nWoody Guthrie had Huntington's \nHis son Arlo dodged that genetic timebomb and since Arlo dodged it, so have his kids.\n\nWoody's daughters from a prior marriage were not as lucky as Arlo.
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pick your numbers from the birthdates of your parents and all in your family. good luck!
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yes..having it in the family definitely increases the risk. Usual symptoms include, excessive weight gain (or loss), lack of appetite, frequent urination...a few others. I would make a doctors appointment right away...they will know for sure. Good luck
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Familial ALS represents between five to 10 percent of all cases. The rest arise spontaneously and mysteriously, making seemingly random attacks on previously healthy adults. ALS can strike anyone, anytime.
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help,\n\nI'm not sure you'll find many articles out there that addresses ADD and/or learning disabilities as an inherited condition.  I've never seen any, so I can't begin to answer what the chances are for a child born to one or both parents who have suffered the same.\n\nI would say that all one can do is to pay close attention to the child's development, and to take quick action if any developmental problems present itself.  I know this isn't much help...best of luck.
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Probably not...some heart valve problems are hereditary, but if his was caused by the disease, chances are , in this case, it is not.
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It depends on the cause of the defect.  Your children might get it only if it's caused by a genetic defect.  If it's caused by a development problem in the womb, then probably not.
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say your mom has a 1st cousin, your once removed to that same person. if your moms cousin had a kid, they'd be your 2nd cousin.
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Who are you? \n\nWe cannot adequately answer this question without knowing a "pre-test" probability. That is,\n\nAre you young and athletic, or elderly with arthritis? \n\nBut theoretically, the probability of an event = the pretest probability times the probability associated with the event itself.\n\nThis is very confusing. So here's another way to look at this problem:\n\nThe probability of ALL equals the probability of getting up from the chair TIMES the probability of tripping down on the table TIMES the probability of falling on the ground, etc.\n\npA = pE1 * pE2 * pE3 etc.\n\nwhere pA = probability of A and pE1 = probability of event 1.\n\nSay the probability of gettin up from the chair is 100%, the probability of tripping down on the table is 1%, the probability of falling on the ground is 0.1%, the probability of swallowing your tongue is 1%, and finally the probability of suffocating is 50%. \n\npA = 1 * 0.01 * 0.001 * 0.01 * 0.5 = 5 EXP (-8) = 5 chances out of 100,000,000 or more simply, 50 chances in a billion.\n\nThis is assuming that the probability of each event is independent of each other event. But.... these events are NOT independent; each subsequent event depends on the previous event. \n\nThe probability that ALL events will happen =\n\n[ Probabilty of E1 ] * [ Probability of E2 given E1 has occurred ] * [ Probability of E3 given both E1 and E2 have occurred ] etc. \n\nIn real life, what most likely happens is someone will have a heart attack or diabetic attack, and THEN they will get up from the chair, feel dizzy and faint, falling on the table then to the ground, perhaps causing a seizure causing the person to swallow their tongue and suffocate.\n\nSo, who are you ?  Do you smoke ? Do you have high cholesterol? Are you young or old?
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Hereditary in the fact that all people in the world are related in one way or the other. So, yes . . anyone, of any age, race, sex, or despite whether they eat health foods or candy bars for lunch, exercise or are couch potatoes, smoke or not . . anyone can get cancer. There are trillions of cells in the human body, and at any moment one of the could become cancerous. \n\nCancer is hereditary, but not predictable. If your mother had breast cancer, you may be at a higher risk for breast cancer . . . you may take all the precautions, check your breasts for lumps, do every single thing right to check for breast cancer . . and than be totally shocked when cancer is discovered in your kidney, or colon, or that you have leukemia. The fact that your mother had breast cancer would be irrelevant. Or you may never get cancer at all. You cannot predict what will happen.\n\nThe only protection against cancer is to become as educated as you can possibly get to learn about all the warning signs, for any cancer. If you have any unusual bumps or lumps anywhere on your body . . have it checked immediately. It is also good to eat a well balanced healthy diet, exercise, learn to check your entire body for lumps or anything unusual, don't smoke or take drugs, and keep a healthy mind and attitude. That way should you ever find out you have cancer, you will be able to fight it. The healthier you are at diagnosis the more able you will be to fight the cancer successfully.
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P(selecting a person at random and he has the symptom and is detected by the procedure)\n\n= P(patient having it) and P(detecting it using the procedure)\n\n= (0.5/100)*(98/100)\n= 0.0049\n\nBut if the person is not randomly selected and you are sure s/he has the problem and its just a matter of detecting it with the procedure, then Probability = (98/100) = 0.98
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In relation to what type of medical disorder or behavior?\n\n Knowledge about the balance between heritable and nonheritable risk in multiple sclerosis (MS) is based on twin studies in high-prevalence areas. In a study that avoided ascertainment limitations and directly compared continental Italy (medium-prevalence) and Sardinia (high-prevalence), we ascertained 216 pairs from 34,549 patients. This gives a twinning rate of 0.62% among MS patients, significantly less than that of the general population.      In continental Italy, probandwise concordance was 14.5% (95% confidence interval, 5.1-23.8) for monozygotic and 4.0% (95% confidence interval, 0.8-7.1) for dizygotic twins. Results in Sardinia resemble those in northern populations but in limited numbers. Monozygotic concordance was 22.2% (95% confidence interval, 0-49.3) probandwise, but no concordant dizygotic pairs were identified.
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There is no difference, dear, both mean the same thing.  It's a disease in your genetic code, which you inherited.
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bud_leaf_... answered it for me, but generally, if you put all of the generation on a pedigree (a family tree that lists similar traits), the carrier always passes the genes on to the offsspring. because the carrier gences are both recessive, if the person mates with another carrier, or a victim the offspring WILL get the disease, unless if it is genetically altered. if the carrier mates it a non carrier with  dominant gene (example, Tt) the offspring will be a carrier. If the mate does not have the disease with both dominant(TT) the offspring will either not be a carrier, or be a carrier. but with the case of hemophelia,it is a sex-linked disease, so the males will be more likely to get it because they have ONLY ONE X CHROMOSOME, WHILE FEMALES HAVE TWO, WHERE THE SECOND  X ACTS AS A BACKUP. THe females will be carriers, while, sadly, the males will be victims. That is a example of a SEX-LINKED DISEASE. It really depends on what type the disease is, though (sex-linked, or just genetic)
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Congenital diseases are ones inherited from your parents.  Basically, it means you were born that way and it may be an insult to the parents of the person also...
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I'm not sure what the probability is, but I urge you to talk to your doctor.  On here, you don't know who you're getting advice from.  Usually the advice is good, but this isn't something I would play with.
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Depending on how much trouble 'they' want to go through - just about anything they want to know. What you put in your body - drugs, alcohol, smoking, what your diet is like. Any diseases you may have. Genetic information - who your parents are.