Genetic disorders

Genetic disorders

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

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Genetic disorders

oligodactyly

Health care; Genetic disorders

The presence of fewer than five digits on a hand or foot.

eugenics

Health care; Genetic disorders

Applied science or the biosocial movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population. Usually refers to human populations.

menstruation

Health care; Genetic disorders

Periodic discharge of blood and tissue from the uterus. Until menopause, menstruation occurs approximately every 28 days when a woman is not pregnant.

The situation in which an individual who is heterozygous for a certain gene mutation or hemizygous at a particular locus, often due to a deletion of the corresponding allele, is clinically affected ...

proliferation

Health care; Genetic disorders

Multiplying or increasing in number. In biology, cell proliferation occurs by a process known as cell division.

pseudoautosomal region

Health care; Genetic disorders

The human Y chromosome is composed of two different parts: a pseudoautosomal region that is homologous to a region of the X chromosome and which is responsible for sex chromosome pairing and a ...

molecular chaperones

Health care; Genetic disorders

Diverse family of prokaryotic and eukaryotic intracellular proteins involved in the assembly and transmembrane translocation of other proteins; seem to function by stabilizing partially unfolded ...