The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is counseling a couple about genetic risks and learns that one parent has neurofibromatosis, an autosomal dominant disorder, and the other parent does not. What will the nurse practitioner include when discussing this disorder and its transmission?
A) Children must inherit a gene from both parents to develop the disease.
B) Each child born to this couple will have a 50% risk of having the disease.
C) This type of disorder characteristically skips generations.
D) Unaffected offspring may still pass on the disease to their offspring.
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