Wagner disease / syndrome is a rare hereditary vitreo-retinal disease. It is one of the connective tissue disorders affecting the collagen. The main feature is an ‘empty’ vitreous that lacks the normal structure. Missing or weak vasculature in the peripheral retina makes the retina prone to tear or getting detached. Diminished visual acuity at night is also a problem as is early onset cataract (from the age of 30) and choroidal atrophy. A lot of people are moderate (> -2) to highly (> -6) myopic. Not everyone has this disease in the same degree: one quarter will have no or minor problems, half of the affected people have moderate problems and again one quarter has major problems (retinal detachment for instance). Wagner syndrome is a dominant autosomal disease. That means that 50% of your offspring will have the disease if you have Wagner. Wagner syndrome has been reported in families of various ethnic background including Caucasian, Japanese and Chinese. Recently the gene that is responsible for the disease is found. It is the Versican gene (CSPG2 = chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 2) on the long arm (q) of the 5th chromosome (5q14.3). It causes a different expression of the proteins V0 and V1, as exon 8 is shorter or not ‘read’ at all. The disease is named after the Swiss ophthalmologist Hans Wagner, who described a family with this disorder in 1938. Since than no more than 50 families, some of them very large, or individual cases have been reported.
Yes, Wagner's disease is a genetic (hereditary) disease.
No, they're not. Kidney disease can be hereditary, however kidney infections are not. (In the same way that other "infections" are not hereditary - e.g nobody gets a hereditary cold).
Nail-patella syndrome (NPS), also known as hereditary osteo-onychodysplasia (HOOD), is a rare, genetically determined disease, which is inherited as a dominant trait. So yes, it is hereditary.
No, polymyalgia is not hereditary. Polymyalgia is a type of the rheumatic disorder that is associated with moderate to severe musculoskeletal pain and stiffness in the hip area, shoulder and the neck.
The difference between hereditary and genetic is that hereditary is inherited. Genetic is dealing with cells and genes. hereditary means its coming from the previous generation example grand ma . mom father ,and has to do with health, genetic means its in the genes example as result of back round ancestry makes up your looks hair ,eye color , could be from mixture af all genes of different people grandfathered from way back in the past.
Enclosing normal hereditary material in a virus and allowing it to move into cells to replace defective hereditary material in the treatment of genetic disorder is a form of gene therapy. A cell in which a virus multiplies itself in a host.
no albinism is a hereditary.
Orthopnea is not hereditary. It is a symptom of a disease.
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The disease was hereditary in their family.
No.
Although Polio is a contagious disease, it is not hereditary or genetic.
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Sickle cell anemia -yes it is hereditary
•E.g. Hemophilia "Royal Disease"
Polio is NOT hereditary. It is caused by a virus, poliovirus, that is highly contagious. A vaccine exists to prevent catching the disease.