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Part One: Family Pedigree Instructions: Use the information provided below to draw a family pedigree for a specific form of inherited colon cancer, HNPCC. Remember to use all the rules of pedigree construction as you complete this activity. ***Draw out the family pedigree on a piece of paper. Take a picture and upload it to the link in Schoology Unit 2, Lesson 6 1 I You are a genetic counselor whose job is to advise patients of the risk for an inherited disorder and discuss appropriate testing options and treatments. Your patient is Bob S who is 45 years old and in good health. His wife Jane, is 42 and also in good health. Bob and Jane have a nineteen-year-old son Steven, and a twenty-one year old daughter, Claire. Bob explains that he has a sister Susan (currently age 50) who was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 42. His brother, Marshall, is 47 and last year was also diagnosed with colon cancer. Bob's last sibling is a 38 year old sister named Sara. Bob's parents both died young - his father Robert was killed in the war at age 35 and his mother Elizabeth was killed in a car accident at age 40. Elizabeth has Support | Schoology Blog | PRIVACY F​

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This is all that i could do since i don't have enough information about the other family members. One of the parents would have HNPCC, but I don't know how to determine which one.

Part One: Family Pedigree Instructions: Use the information provided below to draw-example-1
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