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genetic disorder

genetic disorder (a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically)

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Asperger's syndrome, vitiligo, Down syndrome, Crohn's disease, Huntington's disease, …
cystic fibrosis, Tourette syndrome, Turner syndrome, porphyria, celiac disease, Marfan syndrome, progeria, Harlequin type ichthyosis, color blindness, Klinefelter's syndrome, sickle-cell disease, keratosis pilaris, muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, Neurofibromatosis, haemophilia, Tay-Sachs disease, Angelman syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Edwards syndrome, polydactyly, Wilson's disease, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, enchondromatosis, Rett syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Gilbert's syndrome, fragile X syndrome, microcephaly, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Williams syndrome, von Willebrand disease, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, androgen insensitivity syndrome, spinal muscular atrophy, Osteogenesis imperfecta, retinitis pigmentosa, XYY syndrome, Cri du chat, Noonan syndrome, long QT syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Spinocerebellar ataxia, tuberous sclerosis, polycystic kidney disease, ichthyosis, adrenoleukodystrophy, aneuploidy, methemoglobinemia, Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, Triple X syndrome, Treacher Collins-Franceschetti syndrome, Myotonic dystrophy, Gaucher's disease, Patau syndrome, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Xeroderma pigmentosum, trisomy, Kallmann syndrome, situs inversus, Haemochromatosis, photic sneeze reflex, pentose phosphate pathway, Gulf War syndrome, chronic granulomatous disease, Friedreich's ataxia, androgenic alopecia, Philadelphia chromosome, Maple syrup urine disease, Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, Von Hippel-Lindau disease, melanism, fructose malabsorption, ectrodactyly, Fanconi anemia, epidermolysis bullosa, Pfeiffer syndrome, Brugada syndrome, Apert syndrome, gastroschisis, dextrocardia, galactosemia, Acute intermittent porphyria, severe combined immunodeficiency, Werner syndrome, Ataxia telangiectasia, Waardenburg syndrome type 3, Crouzon syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, Hurler syndrome, Familial adenomatous polyposis, Canavan disease, sideroblastic anemia, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Hunter syndrome, porphyria cutanea tarda, leucism, Niemann-Pick disease, Trimethylaminuria, Bartter syndrome, alkaptonuria, Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, Fabry's disease, Gardner's syndrome, neurofibromatosis type I, Bloom syndrome, Usher syndrome, Stickler syndrome, sickle cell trait, Alport syndrome, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, Morquio syndrome, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, Krabbe disease, Osteopetrosis, Ichthyosis vulgaris, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, homocystinuria, Werdnig-Hoffman disease, McCune-Albright syndrome, Zellweger syndrome, Cavernous angioma, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, CADASIL, VATER syndrome, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Familial dysautonomia, Kennedy disease, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, Becker's muscular dystrophy, XXYY syndrome, Joubert syndrome, Fibromuscular dysplasia, Gitelman syndrome, Channelopathy, Arachnodactyly, Primary ciliary dyskinesia, fibrous dysplasia of bone, Erythropoietic protoporphyria, Alexander disease, Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Cerebral arteriovenous malformation, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Cardiac amyloidosis, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, XX male syndrome, Haemophilia A, myotonia congenita, Deletion, Sandhoff disease, Batten disease, cystinosis, Cockayne syndrome, Trinucleotide repeat disorders, Laron syndrome, Glycogen storage disease type I, Alagille syndrome, MOMO syndrome, XXXX syndrome, treatment of Crohn's disease, X-linked dominant, monosomy, Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome, Cherubism, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Jacobsen syndrome, Fumarase deficiency, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, Bernard-Soulier syndrome, Aicardi syndrome, Kabuki syndrome, Haemophilia B, Abetalipoproteinemia, Ornithine carbamyltransferase deficiency, Microphthalmia, Neurofibromatosis type II, Darier's disease, Dentinogenesis imperfecta, Hereditary coproporphyria, Chromosome 9 trisomy syndrome, Aarskog syndrome, Acute fatty liver of pregnancy, Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, ochronosis, Arylsulphatase A deficiency, Warkany syndrome 2, Sanfilippo syndrome, Familial Alzheimer disease, Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Parent Class: disease
Types: celiac disease
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_disorder
Wordnet Synset ID: "114151139"
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DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Genetic_disorder
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Distinct From: malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, surgical complication, amyloidosis

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Facts About Genetics & Neuromuscular Diseases

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Genetic Disorders

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Lowe Syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder that occurs in about 1 out of 500,000 births and it only strikes male babies.

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Genetics - Some Facts

Some genetic defects affect whole chromosomes or segments of ... A single gene disorder with a dominant inheritance requires ... Genetics - Some Facts; Frequency of Chromosomal disorders ...

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What are Genetic Disorders?

A genetic disorder is a disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual's DNA. Abnormalities can range from a small mutation in a single gene to the addition or ...

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/whataregd/

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