AnswersDriveSome examples of monogenetic disorders include:
- cystic fibrosis,
- sickle cell anemia,
- Marfan syndrome,
- Huntington's disease, and.
- hemochromatosis.
Thereof, what is an example of an inherited disease?
Inherited disorders are caused by faulty genes, which are mostly (but not always) recessive alleles. For example, cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder that affects the cell membranes, causing the production of thick and sticky mucus.
What diseases can be passed down genetically?
Examples of recessive diseases include cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease. Multifactorial inheritance disorders are caused by a combination of small inherited variations in genes, often acting together with environmental factors. Heart disease, diabetes, and most cancers are examples of such disorders.
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Which parent does the hair gene come from?
The most influential hair loss gene is carried on the X chromosome, which a male would only get from his mother, and which could have been passed on by her father. But there are actually several genes that have been found to cause hair loss, as well as other non-genetic factors like stress.
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What do you inherit from your mother?
Chromosomes are Inherited From Your Parents. One chromosome from each of your 23 pairs came from each of your parents. The two chromosomes of a pair (except for the sex chromosomes) contain the same genes, but the genes have small differences. Things like SNPs make each copy of a gene uniquely Mom's or Dad's.
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Do you inherit more DNA from mother or father?
You may have inherited your mother's eyes, but, genetically speaking, you use more DNA passed down from your father. We humans get one copy of each gene from mom and one from dad (ignoring those pesky sex chromosomes) – that hasn't changed. The same is true for all mammals.
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Do you get your genes from your grandparents?
The method that determines which traits are inherited from each parent by the offspring is known as homologous recombination, and this process is (essentially) random, and thus you end with ~50% of your traits (the alleles of the genes) from each parent, and ~25% from each grandparent, so you are right in this respect.
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What are some traits that are inherited?
Observable Human Characteristics
- Earlobe attachment. If earlobes hang free, they are detached.
- Tongue Rolling. Some people can curl up the sides of their tongue to form a tube shape.
- Dimples. Dimples are small, natural indentations on the cheeks.
- Handedness.
- Freckles.
- Curly hair.
- Hand clasping.
- Red/Green Colorblindness.
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What do we inherit from our mother?
It's well known that the transfer of mitochondrial DNA from mother to offspring, often called maternal inheritance, occurs in humans and most multicellular organisms. You inherited your mitochondrial DNA from your mother, who inherited hers from her mother and so forth.
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How many genetic diseases are known?
Around 6,000 known genetic disorders are caused by inheriting an altered gene. Generally, the alteration (mutation) means that the information contained in the particular gene is either changed or absent.
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Is heart disease inherited?
Many cardiac disorders can be inherited, including arrhythmias, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, and high blood cholesterol. Coronary artery disease leading to heart attack, stroke, and heart failure can run in families, indicating inherited genetic risk factors.
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Is Down's syndrome inherited?
Most cases of Down syndrome are not inherited. When the condition is caused by trisomy 21, the chromosomal abnormality occurs as a random event during the formation of reproductive cells in a parent. The abnormality usually occurs in egg cells, but it occasionally occurs in sperm cells.
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What do you inherit from your parents that determine the proteins that your body makes?
Your Mother's Genes. Genes are your body's blueprint. They carry the instructions for producing (expressing) all of the many proteins in your body that determine how you look and how your body works. Your genes are housed in structures called chromosomes.
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Is attention deficit disorder a genetic disorder?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often appears to run in families, and research studies have suggested that there may be a genetic component to this disorder. Non-genetic causes such as abnormal brain development, brain injury or environmental factors are also believed to play a role in the disorder.
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How hereditary diseases are passed from one generation to another?
Genetic traits can be passed through families in several distinct patterns. The most common patterns are the following: Dominant genetic diseases are caused by a mutation in one copy of a gene. If a parent has a dominant genetic disease, then each of that person's children has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease.
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What are inherited diseases caused by?
Monogenetic disorders are caused by a mutation in a single gene. The mutation may be present on one or both chromosomes (one chromosome inherited from each parent). Examples of monogenic disorders are: sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, polycystic kidney disease, and Tay-Sachs disease.
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How is a genetic disease passed on?
Autosomal recessive inheritance. Autosomal recessive diseases occur when both parents are carriers of the same disease and their child inherits an altered gene from each of them. Children of carrier parents have: A 25% chance of inheriting two altered genes and developing the disease.
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What is a carrier of a genetic disorder?
A hereditary carrier (or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation but does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease. The chance of two carriers having a child with the disease is 25%.
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What is the rarest genetic disorder in the world?
Progeria. This genetic disorder is as rare as it is severe. The classic form of the disease, called Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria, causes accelerated aging. Most children who have progeria essentially die of age-related diseases around the age of 13, but some can live into their 20s.
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Can you cure a genetic disease?
I wish I could say that we understand enough about genetic diseases to cure them right now. But sadly, I can't. Genetic diseases, such as Cystic Fibrosis and Huntington's disease, are caused by small differences in the DNA that we get from each of our parents. So we can't really get rid of a gene to cure a disease.
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Is diabetes genetically inherited?
In most cases of type 1 diabetes, people need to inherit risk factors from both parents. We think these factors must be more common in whites because whites have the highest rate of type 1 diabetes. They play a role in damaging blood vessels, which can lead to diabetes complications.X.