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Thursday, December 2, 1976
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Genetics . . .
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A counselor gives his answer in percentages. He may say that there is a 25 per cent chance that a child would have the opportunity to have chance that he would carry the disease.
Some defects involve more than one gene and others involve abnormalities in the pairing of the chromosomes during conception.
Defects traced to a gene inherited from each parent can be recessive, dominant or sex-linked traits. A child inherits a representative gene from each parent.
IF A DISEASE is recessive, a child inherits the gene for the recesive trait from both parents. If both parents are carriers, there is a 25 per cent chance the child will inherit both genes and consequently get the disease. The sickel cell disease in blacks and cystic fibrosis, principally found in whites, are in this category.
If the disease is dominant, a child needs only to receive the defective gene from one parent.
Certain diseases are principally sex-linked. For example, hemophilia may affect males but rarely affects females. The gene for hemophilia is carried in the female gene. A woman has two X chromosomes, and a man has ar. X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father. If a male receives the gene from his mother, he will have the allele; if she receives the gene wouldn't be affected if her father's X chromosome carried a non-affected gene
*opens up to people who seek counseling before a child is conceived include adoption, artificial insemination or have to run the risk and have a child anyway.*
COUNSELORS don't decide whether parents should have a child, Hathaway said. Instead, they present them with statistics, and parents can make them to them. The parents make the decision.
During pregnancy, prenatal tests can be made to check for some specific disorders. Ambnionocentesis, a process by which a needle is used to draw out a sample of the fluid surrounding the fetus, enables tests to run to discover whether the child would be affected. If the results show a disorder is present, a couple has the option of abortion.
THERE'S NO line that separates the high-risk chance of having a child with diabetes.
"It's not up to a counselor to decide what is high-risk," Hathaway said.
Patients evaluate the risk and compare it with the 3.10 per cent chance defects in a patient.
While parents make the decision about having a child, they usually are receiving counseling from clergymen, other doctors, friends and relatives.
George Mundinger, a protestant chaplain at the Med Center, said people sometimes felt overwhelmed by the counseling and mostly were concerned with their odds for having defective children.
THEERE ARE many things parents question themselves about, he said. Question them?
"How will we feel if the child has the congenital defect that we were warned about? Will we reject the child? Will we feel guilty?"
they will struggle with what their behavior will be toward the child and also may question whether their attitude is to expect only a perfect child, he said.
SOMETIMES he will say the decision is
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"On occasion," he said, "I will simply put my weight on one side or the other—I do not believe you should have a child or I do believe you should have a child.
Some couples disregard genetic counseling, Mundinger says.
"1 offer it as a value judgment, tell the
"1 offer it at the decision and offer it
"1 offer it at the decision and offer it
They may be fatalistic and say 'What's the sense of going through all this?' Or they may just be saying 'Their identities because the process would point out something wrong with one of the
"Sometimes they'd just rather not know."
Delarie Simmons, 20, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Audrey Hunt, 16, Detroit, Michigan, and Nov. 22 when their car slammed into a moving freight train north of Ottawa on U.S. 59. The crash also injured four other women, who were memorial Hospital and later released.
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Services on Sun. for collision victims
a memorial service for two KU women killed in a car-train collision last week is planned by their sorority sisters for 4:30 p.m. p.sunday at Danforth Memorial Chapel.
One of the injured woman, Margaret Love, 18, St. Louis freshman, was transferred to Jewish Memorial Hospital near Mount Carmel where she is being treated for a fractured pelvis.
Auditions for the musical-comedy "Dames at Sea" will be conducted tonight and tomorrow night at 7 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The production, sponsored by SUA and The University of Kansas residence halls,
Auditions open for SUA play
Auditions are open to all residents of KU residence halls. Those auditioning are requested to prepare a musical selection and attend the Piano accompaniment will be provided.
will be presented Feb, 12, 13 and 17-20 as part of SUA's Accent the Arts festival.
The production is being directed by Lambrinby Helen Hedge, Lawrence graduate student, and Anne Abrams, assistant student and director of Haddinger Hall's theater.
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