If you are the child of someone with multiple sclerosis, you are 30 to 50 times more likely to get multiple sclerosis than people with no family history of the disease. However, even if you have no family history of multiple sclerosis, you still risk developing the disease, since a great majority of people with multiple sclerosis have no family history of the disease. Drug therapy and physical therapy are two of the ways physicians are currently treating this disease. Cystic Fibrosis Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects an estimated 30,000 American children and adults. This disease causes the body to produce an abnormally thick mucus that obstructs the lungs and pancreas.
Cystic fibrosis is caused by faulty transferal of salt from within organs and their outer surfaces.
Researchers have pinpointed a gene which, when defective, is responsible for cystic fibrosis. According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, one in 31 Americans is a carrier of this defective gene without knowing it.