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Crystic fibrosis is an <u>autosomal</u> recessive disorder/disease. It is the resultant of a mutated copy in a gene. Both copies must have a mutation present in the CFTR gene to have crystic fibrosis. If only one copy is mutated, they are carriers and do not have cf or crystic fibrosis themselves.

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