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Can hereditary diseases appear in a child despite the fact that neither parent shows any signs or symptoms of the disease?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes.
It is possible to carry the gene(s) for a hereditary disease without the disease ever being expressed. The chance of a child inheriting the disease, rather than just being a carrier like its parents, depends on the disease and on whether one or both parents has the gene.
A genetic counselor or clinical geneticist would be able to give the chances for a child having a specific disease.
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What are the causes of hereditary diseases?
Genetic mutations passed from parent to child cause hereditary disease.
What are some types of hereditary disease?
Some types of hereditary diseases are 1) Tay-Sachs Disease, 2) Hemophilia, 3) Sickle Cell Disease, 4) Huntington's Disease, and many many more.
What diseases are hereditary?
The term "hereditary disease" is usually used to refer to diseases which have a high likelihood of being inherited in one's offspring, usually by a predictable probability. For example, if you have Huntington's disease, there is a 50-50 chance that your child will have it. On the other hand, almost all diseases are more probable in the offspring of a person who has them than in the offspring of a person who does not. Thus, a tendency to develop a medical condition can run in families. Such conditions, however, are not usually referred to as hereditary diseases. For example, if you have allergies to pollens, then your children are more likely to develop such allergies, than are the children of your friend who does not have allergies.
How are diseases inherited from parents?
If a disease is hereditary then once you get it your kids or there kids get it. Because it is in your genes.
What disease if this symptoms occurred lose of appetites and vomiting?
There are many diseases for which these are symptoms.
What is a hereditary form of prion disease?
Prion diseases can also be hereditary, as seen in some cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS).
What is the difference between lifestyle disease and hereditary disease?
lifestyle diseases are a result of a bad lifestyle, heriditary diseases are also a result of a bad lifestyle but heredity plays a part in whether u get the disease
What is the disease that combines symptoms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
Parkinson's Disease with Dementia and Lewy Body Disease both combine Alzheimer's and Parkinson's symptoms.
What are the diseases that comes from the parents to their off springs and its cure?
Diseases that are passed from the parents to their offspring are called Hereditary diseases. Whether or not there is a cure or treatment would depend on what disease it is.
Diseases that run in the family?
Diseases that run in families can be referred to as genetic or hereditary diseases. Examples include Hemophilia, Male pattern baldness, and sickle-cell disease.
What are the symptoms of each diseases or disorders?
Exactly what disease or disorders are you referring to?
How can parents that don't have a disease produce a Child with a disease?
Viral, bacterial, or hereditary? In viral diseases, the virus can just be dormant in the parents, but in the child it isn't.
