#5 What are the chances of a person with this disease passing the disease to thier offspring?

     If both of your parents were to be carriers of gaucher disease, then you would have a 25% possibility of having the disease. It does not matter if you are a boy or a girl, you will have the same statistics. Since gaucher disease is autosomal recessive, their are not much people effetced by this disease. If you are not effected by this disease the you will be a carrier, which means that you do not have the disease, but you do have a chance of passing it off to your offspring.


"Related Diseases Gaucher." Ntsad.org. Web. 12 Mar. 2011. <http://www.ntsad.org/S02/S02gaucher.htm>.