Genetic disorders

Genetic disorders

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

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zygosity testing

Health care; Genetic disorders

The process through which DNA sequences are compared to assess whether individuals born from a multiple gestation (twins, triplets, etc.) are monozygotic (identical) or dizygotic (fraternal); often ...

negative predictive value

Health care; Genetic disorders

The likelihood that an individual with a negative test result is actually unaffected and/or does not have the particular gene mutation in question.

involuntary

Health care; Genetic disorders

Not subject to control of the will.

ilium

Health care; Genetic disorders

The dorsal, upper, and largest one of the three bones composing either lateral half of the pelvis that in humans is broad and expanded above and narrower below where it joins with the ischium and ...

Hardy-Weinberg law

Health care; Genetic disorders

The concept that both gene frequencies and genotype frequencies will remain constant from generation to generation in an infinitely large, interbreeding population in which mating is at random and ...