Captain Australia wrote:I need help with the future.
My Girlfriend is pregnant and due to the combination of our recessive genes the baby has a 45% chance of being born with Cockayne syndrome, a horrible aging disease that will mean our child will live a very short and painful life.
Should we have the baby? Please help Vasilji.
Regardless of the answer Vasilji the clown gives u, good luck man. You've got a hard decision to make. Just wondering though, are you sure that you both have recessive genes? From what I remember Cockayne syndrome is autosomally recessive. So if both of you have recessive genes, the chances of your baby contracting the disease should be about 25 percent give or take. not 45 percent. Is one of you homozygous (does one of you actually have the disease)?