A Nurse Is Participating in the Assessment Portion of a Couples

Multiple Choice

A nurse is participating in the assessment portion of a couples genetic screening and testing. Early in the assessment of the couples family history, the nurse learns that the husbands father and the wifes father are brothers. The nurse recognizes that this greatly increases the couples risk of what health problems?

A) Diseases that have a multifactorial pattern of inheritance
B) Diseases with autosomal recessive inheritance
C) Autosomal dominant disease
D) X-linked diseases