Sentence examples for gene disorder from inspiring English sources

His genetic father had carried this inherited single gene disorder.

It helps explain why some parents who have a baby affected by a single gene disorder will have no family history of the disorder.

Although sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common single gene disorder worldwide, caregivers of children do not have adequate knowledge about the illness and its management.

Huntington's disease (HD) is a single gene disorder produced by expansion of the gene encoding huntingtin (htt), a large protein with features of a multi-functional scaffold.

Upon rare occasion, persons are identified with an imprinted gene disorder who show no family history and do not appear to carry any mutation in the expected gene.

α-Thalassemia, the most common single gene disorder in humans, is due to the absence of one or both of the two functional α-globin genes (α1 and α2).

But mathematicians and computer scientists have now devised methods for determining whether additional genes beyond those already identified are likely to be related to a complex-gene disorder.

VMcK: Investigators still have to find each gene one at a time, using the same process they employ for a single-gene disorder.

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common single-gene disorder characterised by a diverse range of cutaneous, neurological and neoplastic manifestations.

PGD can be used for couples who have a family history of a single-gene disorder that places the fetus at high risk of inheriting that condition.

This is hardly surprising given that Swiss psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin — an early proponent of the argument that the condition is a single-gene disorder — advocated the view that people with mental illnesses should not have children3, and justified the sterilization and murder of people with schizophrenia.