Cystic fibrosis
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Definition
An autosomal recessive inherited illness. It basically makes all the exocrine glands screw up, thus causing problems in the lungs, liver, pancreas and intestines.
Epidemiology
In white Europeans its about 1 in 2,500 births. For some reason, the less that description matches you, the rarer CF is. So in black Africans, its 1 in 10,000, and native Asians, more like 1 in 25,000.