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

Lipopolysaccharides

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Lipid-containing polysaccharides which are endotoxins and important group-specific antigens. They are often derived from the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria and induce immunoglobulin ...

Dementia

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) loss of intellectual functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and abstract thinking while vegetative functions remain intact. 2) An acquired organic mental disorder with ...

1) Lipid infiltration of the hepatic parenchymal cells resulting in a yellow-colored liver. The abnormal lipid accumulation is usually in the form of triglycerides, either as a single large droplet ...

Variable number tandem repeats

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Linear arrangement of multiple copies of short repeated DNA sequences that vary in length and are highly polymorphic, making them useful as markers in linkage analysis. 2) A tandem repeat from a ...

Vntr

Health care; Genetic disorders

Homology

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Likeness in structure between parts of different organisms due to evolutionary differentiation from the same or a corresponding part of a remote ancestor. 2) Similarity in DNA or protein sequences ...

Dextrocardia

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Location of the heart in the right hemithorax, with the apex directed to the right. 2) An abnormal condition in which the heart is situated on the right side and the great blood vessels of the ...