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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 symptoms of sex-linked hereditary diseases?
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Are hereditary diseases and genetic diseases the same?
Yes, they are the same thing.
What is hereditary ataxia?
One of a group of hereditary degenerative diseases of the spinal cord or cerebellum. These diseases cause tremor, spasm, and wasting of muscle.
What are the causes of hereditary diseases?
Genetic mutations passed from parent to child cause hereditary disease.
How are Hereditary diseases treated?
Hereditary diseases are passed down from one generation to the succeeding generation through genes. A lot of research and development has been done to treat it but there is no treatment for this condition.
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.
How is health a biological issue?
Because some diseases can cause genetic and hereditary mutations, meaning it can pass through generations.
How many diseases are presently thought to be hereditary?
There are 4 that i know of.
What are the advantages of having a designer baby?
It can cure Hereditary diseases.
Is an infectious disease hereditary?
Infectious diseases are not hereditary. But there may be hereditary resistance or susceptibility to infectious diseases. Say for example sickel cell trait patients are genetically resistant to malarial fever. While sickel cell anemia is susceptible to malarial fever. Some people will not get AIDS, through they are carriers of HIV infection. Some people living in tropical zone will not get malarial fever and they are genetically reasistant to malarial fever.
Are diabetes and glaucoma hereditary diseases?
Although it seems they are in fact hereditary, one can not pass cancer nor diabetes thru genetics.
