{"id":1230,"date":"2014-05-12T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:23:51","slug":"race-matters-fanconi-anaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2014\/05\/race-matters-fanconi-anaemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Matters: Fanconi Anaemia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the final week of our “Race Matters” mini-series, Cells4Life are raising awareness of Fanconi Anaemia.<\/h2>\n
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Fanconi Anaemia<\/a> was discovered by a Swiss paediatrician in 1927 named Guido Fanconi. \u00a0Fanconi Anaemia is a genetic disorder with a higher prevalence in Afrikaners in South Africa and Ashkenazi Jews, FA affects approximately 1 in 350,000 births. The genetic nature of FA means that for those parents who aware that they could have a baby with this illness that they can plan ahead and bank their baby\u2019s cord blood<\/a> for a perfect match should they need a stem cell transplant in the future.<\/p>\n

Fanconi Anaemia is incredibly rare and diagnosis can be timely [1]<\/sup> however, those with FA usually have a congenital anomaly [2]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As we progress through the week we will look at what Fanconi Anaemia is, what the symptoms are and what the risk factors are.<\/p>\n

Over the last 4 weeks we have introduced you to the situation that many people face when they need to turn to the stem cell register for a match and we\u2019ve looked at some of the illnesses which may have caused them to need a stem cell transplant. \u00a0We\u2019ve looked at the opportunity parents have to secure their child a perfect stem cell match by banking their baby\u2019s umbilical cord blood and how people of all ethnicities can help by joining the bone marrow register.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[1]<\/sup>http:\/\/www.fanconi.org<\/a><\/p>\n

[2]<\/sup>https:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/health-topics\/topics\/fanconi\/signs.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the final week of our “Race Matters” mini-series, Cells4Life are raising awareness of Fanconi Anaemia. Fanconi Anaemia was discovered by a Swiss paediatrician in 1927 named Guido Fanconi. \u00a0Fanconi Anaemia is a genetic disorder with a higher prevalence in Afrikaners in South Africa and Ashkenazi Jews, FA affects approximately 1 in 350,000 births. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}