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  • A healthy 35 year old caucasian woman of European descent is considering pregnancy and seeks conselling regarding cystic fibrosis risk. Her mother and father are both cariers of a cystic fibrosis disease causing allele and her younger brother is severely affect by CF. She gets a screening assay for disease causing mutations in the CFTR gene. The test is negative. caucasians of norther European descent the test sensitivity is 80%. The mutations carried by her mother and father have not been defined. What is her risk of carrying a disease causing CFTR allele?

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