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Genetic Diseases
A genetic disease or disorder is a condition caused by abnormal genes or chromosomes. Some of the more common genetic diseases are Angelman syndrome, celiac disease, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, hemophilia, Klinefelter syndrome, sickle-cell disease, and Turner syndrome.
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Is Klinefelter's syndrome life threatening?
no, its not immediately but life can be shortened due to deficiencies. A male not on HRT can not bind calcium to bones and muscles. Over time deficency can result in premature failure of heart, osteoporosis, decrease in immunity, sleep quality. Thus resulting in death.
What respiratory disease that can pass hereditarily?
cystic fibrosis: although CF is not specifically a respiratory disease it does dramatically affect the lungs causing an early death. there are a couple of other genetic ones (for instance alpha 1 antitrysin) but they are much rarer in occurence than CF
Can you have wet dreams with Klinefelter's syndrome?
Yes, but not everyone with KS can. Sometimes HRT fixed it, sometimes it doesn't.
Docks do not get down syndrome. You have not studied the genetic diseases of ducks to any extent. But one can be sure that ducks too must be getting as many genetic diseases.
What might happen to a human with a faulty gene?
Possibly nothing, often small genetic defects have no baring on a person's livelihood. In fact over the course of a lifetime we pick up many mutations in parts of our DNA in different cells which are called silent mutations because they don't ever show any phenotypic change.
If in fact this cell has a mutation in an important gene in its coding region (the part which becomes a protein), DNA has many corrective processes to make sure it does not get repeated.
Also, this cell may be killed off by normal processes (apoptosis) if it cannot make it through the cell cycle, stopping this gene from ever being copied when the cell divides.
If you are concerned because of health problems that seem to have been passed along in your family through generations you should talk to a genetic counselor about possible inheritance of genetic diseases and the risk of passing them on to your children.
Remember, unless this gene was passed through your parents it will likely not be prominent enough to impact you. A "faulty" gene can lead to a number of genetic diseases but only if they were passed from adult to child.
Is Trisomy 8 dominant or recessive?
neither, it is not heridetary, it happens when there is a problem between sperm and egg and some of the cells don't split properly. it's a chance occurence
Yes, carriers of genetic diseases typically have one normal allele and one mutated allele for the disorder, which means they possess recessive genes. They do not express the disease phenotype because the normal allele is sufficient to mask the effects of the recessive allele. However, they can pass the mutated allele to their offspring, potentially leading to the expression of the disease if the child inherits another mutated allele from the other parent.
Attached earlobes are a recessive trait. When one parent has attached earlobes and the other is heterozygous for free earlobes, the chances of any particular offspring having attached earlobes is fifty percent.
Is Williams syndrome dominant or recessive?
it is rarely inherited, and is often spontaneous. but when inherited, it is considered autosomal dominant condition and is usually passed down from someone with the condition to all of their offspring
What is the average life span of someone with cat cry syndrome?
what is the life expentancy for individuals with cat cry syndrome
How can people with Down's Syndrome ovulate although they have 47 chromosomes not 2N?
They cannot. They can experience menstruation, but there is no ovum produced.
Dominant genes are written with?
Usually with a capital letter and the recessive genes are written with a lowercase letter.
What is the probability that the child will get Townes -Brocks Syndrome if the mother has it?
There's a 50% chance the baby will have it too.
Is fragile X syndrome related to klinefelster?
No, Klinefelter is due to an extra chromosome, Fragile X is due to the FMR1 gene being turned off and producing no FMR1 protein
Can only Jews get the Tay Sachs disease?
No; this is a common misconception. Anyone whose parents are both carriers of the gene for Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) may become afflicted with TSD. That being said, TSD is most common among the Ashkenazi Jewish population as approximately 1 in every 27 Ashkenazi Jewish people is a carrier of the faulty gene. In the general population, about 1 in every 300 people carries the gene for TSD. In the French-Canadian population, the Cajun population of Louisiana, and the Amish population of Pennsylvania, the faulty gene that causes TSD is a little bit more common (but still less common than in the Ashkenazi Jewish population).
