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**A Genetic Disease or Disorder**

What do you think of when you hear genetic disorder or a type of disease? Well a genetic disorder is a disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual's DNA. Most genetic diseases come before birth, but not most are cause by that. Some can be caused by the environment. There are tons of syndromes around the world, but one in particular is the Marfan syndrome. The essay that I’m writing will tell you more about it.

What is the Marfan syndrome? The Marfan syndrome is a syndrome that you can inherit and it messes up the connective tissue. The purpose of the connective tissue is that it holds the body together. Without it you can consider yourself dead. With the Marfan syndrome it affects the skeleton, eyes, nervous system, blood, and even your lungs. It can also affect with the way you and your kids grow. If you have it your kids have a 50% chance of having it also. This syndrome is caused a defect in growing. You really wouldn’t know you have it until later on in life.

The estimated result of how many people got it is over 1,500 people that have it in the United States. The syndrome has been identified as dominant. It effect men, women, and children, and has been found among people of all races. It affects people in different ways. Some people don’t have it bad as others. This disease is not curable at all. Mostly it will get worse as you age.

Signs that you know you have it is not noticeable. People that have are mostly very tall, slender, and very loose-jointed. Since it affects the skeleton body it affects the arms, legs, toes, and etc. Their face is mostly very long and narrow and causes your teeth to get crowded. With the eyes it is dislocation in both of them. They might be lower or higher than the other one. It can cause cataracts in your eyes. With the heart and the blood vessels they have very bad heart problems and or it can cause sudden death if you’re not careful and isn’t going to get checked out. It can cause short of breath also. Also your brain and spinal cord started too crowded with fluid. It also causes weakness in your legs also. It also causes very bad stretch marks. Also it makes increase the risk of your lungs to collapse. While you may be sleeping your breathing may stop.

The Marfan syndrome is very dangerous. If you have it you need to be careful and get checkups daily. You shouldn’t smoke, drink, or etc. The doctor will announce it too you later in life. He will pronounce if your family has a history with it. I just wish you luck if you have it and if you don’t have it you are truly blessed.