Disease, Genetics Of
Genetics is believed to play a role in almost every human disease. Even for diseases traditionally described as environmental, such as tuberculosis and HIV, scientists are discove...
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Growth Disorders
Growth, which usually refers to skeletal growth since it determines final adult height, is an extremely complex process. As such, it is susceptible to a wide range of genetic and phys...
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Triplet Repeat Disease
Trinucleotide, or triplet repeats, consist of three consecutive nucleotides that are repeated within a region of DNA (for example, CCG CCG CCG CCG CCG).
Expansion of a triple...
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Genetic Diseases
Even at birth the whole individual is destined to die, and perhaps his organic disposition may already contain the indication of what he is to die from.
—Sigmund Freud, 1924
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Inherited Diseases
The human genome is composed of roughly three billion DNA base pairs. Each somatic cell of the body contains two copies of the entire genome, one inherited from the mother through t...
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Genetic Disorders and Diseases
Variations within the DNA sequence of a particular gene affect its function, and may cause or predispose an individual a particular disease. Alterations in the genome ma...
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Hereditary Diseases
Virtually all diseases involve genetic factors to some extent. Diseases that appear to result from simple mutations of single genes are often referred to as hereditary diseases, an...
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History of Genetics: Selected Studies on the Impact of Genetic Diseases
Though nearly all present scientific understanding of genetic diseases has been accomplished in the past century; the diseases t...
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Polygenic Inheritance and Disorders
The inheritance of polygenic traits depends upon the interaction of two or more genes. This is sometimes confused with the idea of multiple alleles, which are just ...
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Single-Gene Disorders
Single-gene disorders, also called monogenic disorders, are defects caused by a mutant allele of a single gene that results in the functional loss of a protein. Single-gene disor...
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Statistical Analysis of Genetic Syndromes
Because of computer technologies, genetics has benefited during the past 20 years from specific and complex explanations of the mechanisms leading to genetic ...
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Genetic Disorders
Conditions with a link to the individual's genetic make-up.
Genetic disorders are conditions that can be traced to an individual's heredity. Many of these disorders are...
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Good news for the nation's babies: Nearly 90 percent of newborns are getting tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic disorders. Since 2004, specialists have urged that every U.S. newborn ...
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In what is being called a "wrongful birth" case, a jury awarded more than $21 million to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second...
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled...
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French doctors announced Tuesday that they had performed a partial face transplant on a man whose face was disfigured by a genetic disorder, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part...
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Two government hospitals in Calcutta that refused to treat an HIV-positive boy for more than a year said Tuesday they would investigate why he was turned away, and a government agency also said it ...
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Theodore H. MaimanVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ Theodore H. Maiman, a physicist who built the first working laser in the United States and advocated for its use in medical applications, has di...
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The illegal immigrant parents of a toddler with a little-known genetic abnormality were granted a one year stay in the United States, U.S. Customs and Immigration officials said Thursday.Victor and...
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A toddler with a chromosomal abnormality was in good condition Friday after a heart procedure that began just hours after her illegal immigrant parents were granted a one-year stay in the United St...
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Increased supervision of genetic testing is needed to ensure the usefulness of the increasingly popular tests, often promoted as a way to personalize medical treatment, according to a government dr...
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Increased supervision of genetic testing is needed to ensure the usefulness of the increasingly popular tests, often promoted as a way to personalize medical treatment, a U.S. government draft repo...
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Disease, Genetics Of
Genetic Diseases
Inherited Diseases
Genetic Disorders and Diseases
Genetic Disorders
Newborns tested for genetic disorders
