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= Bloom Syndrome(BS) = Adrianne Lam 9.6

Bloom Syndrome is a rare disease that affects people early in life. This disease often causes many to develop red skin which would be much more sun-sensitive than normal skin, an unusual high pitch voice, and a narrow face with a bent nose. The disease spreads to your face and the back of your hands, forearms. Bloom Syndrome could become from mild to severe. Anyone who has Bloom Syndrome has fat tissue thats rather thin and scattered. Although the persons health is good, BS could affect them by developing an inner ear infection and have bronchitis which then causes chronic lung disease. Diabetes, Cancer would also have a much higher chance of occurring when having BS than usual, and being much shorter than their natural height.

Bloom Syndrome was discovered by a scientist named Dr. David Bloom, and was first explained in 1954, they have discovered 60 different types of BS that has occurred during the past and to the present, not knowing how many generations it inherits. But BS is a genetic disease, and has a 1/4 chance of getting though if your parents were not infected by BS. Parents do need to do gene testing if they were carriers of Bloom Syndrome. People who were affected by BS would develop dilated blood vessels throughout the body in order to respond to sun-exposure, which causes their face to be covered with a red butterfly shaped pattern on their cheeks and nose.

Getting Bloom Syndrome is very very rare, only 1 of 50,000 were affected in Ashkenazi. What causes Bloom Syndrome, is when a child gets both of the genes that contain bloom syndrome from their parents, so they therefore have Bloom Syndrome. But if a child gets an affected gene but the other is not, they will have a 1/2 chance of getting Bloom Syndrome. There are several mutations when you have BS, one of them is to disable ou growth suppressor to determine how long your cells will live, or when they will split.

(The chart explains the chances of a child being diagnosed with bloom syndrome.)

So far, there has not been a cure for bloom syndrome. The genes cannot be separated or corrected.There have been some tests to try to increase the growth for the patient, but have failed. Though currently theres no cure for BS, some believe doing a bone marrow transplant might be able to get the BS out of the patient's body.

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