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What illness causes heterochromia?
Glaucoma, Waardenburg syndrome, Neurofibromatosis, or some mild infection infecting one eye.
What are some causes of deafness?
# Meningitis # Prebycusis # Otis Media # Tinnitus # Pematurity # Cytomegaloirus # treacher collinssyndrome # Waardenburg syndrome
How is piebaldism different from Waardenburg syndrome?
A piebald person can be perfectly normal whereas Waardenburg syndrome is a group of genetic conditions that can cause hearing loss and hypopigmentation of the hair, skin, and eyes.
Who discovered waardenburg syndrome?
Pietrus sp? Waardenburg discovered Waardenburg syndrome in the Netherlands. It was the early 50s. I think it was 1951. He was a Dutch ophthmologist (eye doctor MD) who discovered many school children with different colored eyes (heterochromatica ) were deaf. WS is a leading cause of deafness.
Is waardenburg syndrome caused by a dominant or recessive allele?
Autosomal dominant allele
Does Waardenburg syndrome effect specfic populations of people more than others?
Yes
What is Waardenburg's population?
The population of Waardenburg is 2,330.
What type of genetic disorder is waardenburg syndrome?
Waardenburg synrome is an autosomal genetic disorder characterized by deafness, confluent brows, early grey hair as young as 12, different colored eyes or unusually brilliant blue eyes. Source US NIH Deafness and other communcation disorders. Its named Waardenburg because it was discovered Prietrus Waardenburg who noticed girls and boys with unmatching eyes tend to deafness. There are four main types.
What percentage of cleft lip cases are associated with a genetic syndrome?
Approximately 5% of cleft conditions are associated with a genetic syndrome, including Van der Woude, Opitz, Aarskog, Fryns, Waardenburg, and Coffin-Siris.
When was Petrus Johannes Waardenburg born?
Petrus Johannes Waardenburg was born in 1886.
What is an integumentary disorder such as Waardenburg syndrome?
it is a large genatalia wart that only some men grow on the tip of there penis it is a large genatalia wart that only some men grow on the tip of there penis Waardenburg syndrome is a genetic disorder effecting hair, eye, facial pigment. It can effect facial features too such a shape of lips, nose bridge, eyebrows. It is most definitely not a genitalia , genital wart.
My child was born with Waardenburg syndrome. I don't have it. I want to know how did she get it?
The disorder is autosomal dominant, so she would have gotten the gene from either one of her parents. Since not every person has the same symptoms, and symptoms can be very subtle, it's possible for one of her parents to carry the gene without knowing it. Some people with the syndrome have only minor signs, like a patch of white hair, without any difficulties related to hearing or the muscular system. Consulting with a genetic counselor may be helpful for your family as you sort out this question. Best wishes! Waardenburg syndrome can skip a generation or as above the signs can so subtle as to be unrecognizable. I read of a case where a woman gave birth to triplets with Waardenburg when there was no known instances of the genetic syndrome
