Cystic fibrosis as the sickle-cell anemia of the north
Cystic fibrosis is one of those ‘classical’ recessive diseases you learn about in medical genetics. It’s frequent enough that doctors will always be interested in it, and its inheritance pattern is relatively simple, following a rough Mendelian pattern of recessive expression. The reality is a little more complicated than that though, as there are different […]
The “how” of cystic fibrosis through the “why”
It’s just a fact that contemporary human evolutionary genetics has relied upon its potential insights into disease to generate funding, support and interest. I don’t think that this is much of a silver lining when set next to the suffering caused by disease, but it’s a silver lining nevertheless. Therefore findings which would be of […]