Genetic disorders

Genetic disorders

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

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Genetic disorders

Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML)

Health care; Genetic disorders

A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, ...

Lipogranuloma

Health care; Genetic disorders

Condition of faulty lipid metabolism in which yellow nodules of lipoid matter are deposited in the skin and mucosae, giving rise to granulomatous reactions.

Exostoses

Health care; Genetic disorders

Benign hypertrophy that projects outward from the surface of bone, often containing a cartilaginous component.

Akinesia

Health care; Genetic disorders

Loss or impairment of voluntary activity (as of a muscle).

Eczema

Health care; Genetic disorders

An inflammatory condition of the skin characterised by redness, itching, and oozing vesicular lesions which become scaly, crusted, or hardened.

Cutaneous

Health care; Genetic disorders

Having to do with the skin.

Mitochondrial inheritance

Health care; Genetic disorders

Mitochondria, cytoplasmic organelles that produce the energy source ATP for most chemical reactions in the body, contain their own distinct genome; mutations in mitochondrial genes are responsible ...