Carolyn Webb. Players of St Therese's under-15 team are upset that they have to play against a 13-year-old boy who stands 185 centimetres tall. MEMBERS of a junior netball club have slammed a VCAT decision to allow a 185-centimetre tall, 13-year-old boy interim permission to play in an all-girls' competition.
1. Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is one of the most widespread inherited genetic disorders. It prominently affects Caucasians who are Ashkenazi Jews. It occurs only when both parents are carriers, which gives their children a 1 in 4 risk of contracting the disease.
CreutzfeldtâJakob disease (CJD) the commonest phenotype of these, annually affects one person per million . Genetic CJD (gCJD) follows autosomal dominant inheritance patterns and is caused by different mutations in the prion protein gene (PRNP) on chromosome 20 . Familial CJD accounts for about 10â15% of cases, but this may be an underestimate of the heredofamilial forms.