Avery+Cooper+ALS

Pedigree Description Gretel married Matt who was a carrier of ALS They had three children, Boris who is not a carrier, Doris who is a carrier and Cornelius who is not a carrier Boris married Danielle, a non-carrier, and had two kids, Armstrong and Willy who are both non-carriers Doris married Poseidon, a carrier of ALS, they had identical twins Rochelle and Beth who are not carriers of ALS, Zoey who is not a carrier and Zoro who has ALS. Zoey married Zeus, a carrier of ALS, and they had three children, Lilian who is not a carrier, Hansel who is a carrier, and Rachel who isn’t a carrier Cornelius married Georgina who has ALS, they had two kids named Elvis and Cornelius who are both non-carriers.

ALS Information Project Part 2 There was once a child. A child who strived in baseball. Little did he know he would be famous for being a wonderful baseball player. Years past and this "child" now a man, was accepted by the New York Yankees. Apart of the infamous "Murderer's Row", this man became ill and many at the time thought he was in slump. Then at age 35, this man died of the slow killing disease called ALS. This man's name was Lou "The Iron Horse" Gherig.He was one of the few victims at the time of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ALS is a reccessive disease that has no cure. Approx. 2 per 100,000 people die each year in the United States because of ALS. ALS is a disease that attacks your nervous system and eventually the victim loses body function. The average person on average dies around 2-5 years after being diagnosed. The only treatment so far for ALS is a narcotic called riluzole. This is a chemical that reduces the damage to neurons by reducing the amount of glutamate being released into the body. Although riluzole is not a cure, the person who takes it should live aorund 3 months extra than a person who didn't take it. This theory however has not been proven. Some symptoms of ALS include weakness, and mucsele stiffness. Any one can have ALS and around 5,600 people anuallly get diagnosed with ALS just in the United States. The life style of a victim of ALS is pretty normal until the last two years of the victims life. That is when the symptom really kick in, also the victims voice starts to become slurred and not understandable. ALS is a very uncommon disease and the chances of getting it are slim. Resource: The ALS Association