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

pulmonary stenosis

Health care; Genetic disorders

Abnormal narrowing of the orifice between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle; called also pulmonic stenosis.

DNA sequences of high susceptibility to mutation due to some inherent instability, tendency toward unequal crossing over, or chemical predisposition to single nucleotide substitutions; region where ...

neutropenia

Health care; Genetic disorders

An abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.

sacrum

Health care; Genetic disorders

The part of the spinal column that is directly connected with or forms a part of the pelvis by articulation with the ilia and that in humans forms the dorsal wall of the pelvis and consists of five ...

cerebral hemisphere hemorrhage

Health care; Genetic disorders

The bleeding into the tissue of the brain and especially of the cerebrum from a ruptured blood vessel.

minisatellite

Health care; Genetic disorders

Repeated segments of the same sequence of multiple triplet codons, each segment varying between 14 and 100 base pairs, useful as linkage markers due to their highly polymorphic nature and the fact ...

variable expression

Health care; Genetic disorders

Variation in clinical features (type and severity) of a genetic disorder between individuals with the same gene alteration, even within the same family.