Genzyme, based in Cambridge, Mass., is the world's biggest maker of enzyme replacement treatments for hereditary disorders.
Highly inbred populations have diminished reproductive success and become gene pools for hereditary disorders.
In the 1960's, researchers began diagnosing hereditary disorders by examining the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetuses carried by pregnant women considered at high risk.
Dr. Wang is the director of a new research clinic that the Amish have organized to deal with hereditary disorders that haunt children in Amish and Mennonite communities, often with fatal results.
Hereditary disorders of the skeleton include osteogenesis imperfecta, Hurler and Marfan syndromes, and several disorders of epiphyseal and metaphyseal growth centres.
Neurofibromatosis, either of two hereditary disorders characterized by distinctive skin lesions and by benign, progressively enlarging tumours of the nervous system.
The country's Mother and Child Health Law permits abortions only when the mother's health is in serious danger, or in cases of rape, incest or severe hereditary disorders.
Results: CW was reduced in both hereditary disorders.
Expansions of simple DNA repeats cause numerous hereditary disorders in humans.
Absolute indications include tumours in a solitary kidney, impaired renal function and hereditary disorders that predispose to recurrent RCC.
The childhood leukodystrophies comprise a group of hereditary disorders characterized by the absence, malformation or destruction of myelin.
