Genetic disorders

Genetic disorders

Genetic diseases, syndromes, or conditions caused by genetic variations and abnormalities in genes or chromosomes.

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oncologist

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) A doctor who specializes in treating cancer. Some oncologists specialize in a particular type of cancer treatment. For example, a radiation oncologist specializes in treating cancer with ...

1) An act or process of forming fibers or fibrils. 2) A muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination. 3) Very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of ...

teratogens

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) An agent that causes the production of physical defects in the developing embryo. 2) Drugs or other agents that cause developmental malformations. 3) Any agent that raises the incidence of ...

teratogenic substance

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) An agent that causes the production of physical defects in the developing embryo. 2) Drugs or other agents that cause developmental malformations. 3) Any agent that raises the incidence of ...

point mutation

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) An alteration in DNA sequence caused by a single nucleotide base change, insertion, or deletion. 2) A gene mutation involving the substitution, addition, or deletion of a single nucleotide ...

allelic variant of unknown significance (VUS)

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) An alteration in the normal sequence of a gene, the significance of which is unclear until further study of the genotype and corresponding phenotype in a sufficiently large population; complete ...

hemidesmosome

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate, similar in morphology to halves of desmosomes. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where intermediate ...