Question

You are geneticist and a patient came in asking you to run some tests on her fetus to see if there are any developing genetic disorders. Pick a individuals karyotype and write a letter to your patient. In your letter, explain the good or bad news, possibpe treatments and favts about the genetic disorder. (300 words)

Answer 1

I am writing this letter to inform about your test. While going through your test report, i came to know that, your fetus has some genetic disorder. There is no problem, because, we came to know this in the early stage, it will not cause any problem for developing fetus. The fetus shows genetic disorder named sickle cell anemia, it can be identified during pregancy. This disorder will reduce the flow of oxygen through the blood vessels and it mainly affect the RBC of the body as a result changes the shape of RBC, into an open curve. It is a good thing that we discovered the disorder now, because this disorder will show its symptoms only when the baby is  4 months. This disorder is inherited fromtwo parents. It is not a serious disorde, because of the early stage discovery. Gene therapy, stem cell transplantation can be used to trear this disorder.