Maybe we're morbid but our latest activity has been discussing all the possible genetic disorders our child might have. It's amazing how much the absence or addition of ONE nucleotide out of millions could seriously alter the life of an individual!

We've come across some really unique diseases. Here are a few of our favorites:
Maple Syrup Urine Disease - your urine smells like maple syrup
Tay Sachs - no protein to
destory harmful fats that accumulate in the brain
Cytic Fibrosis - Mutation in the gene that produces sweat, digestive juices and mucus
Cri du Chat - the baby's cry sounds like a screaming cat!
Klinefelter's - caused by chromosome
aneuploidy - affects
male's ability to reproduce
Color Blindness - travels on the X chromosome
Huntington's disease - a
trinucleotide expansion in
one gene - causes major problems
Leisy's 190 students just turned in reports about genetic disorders. She was very busy grading papers - I'm SO glad she teaches Biology and not English!
Our doctor is fairly confident that our baby does not have
Down's Syndrome. But I'm including that one as well.
Trisomy 21 - look how dang cute!