What are the chances that you'll inherit health issues from your parents? Learn the role genetics plays in certain medical conditions and how researchers are using this information.
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Radial Aplasia: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and More
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Myophosphorylase Deficiency: Overview and More
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What Is Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome?
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What Is Gorlin Syndrome?
Gene therapy alters genetic material to treat diseases
What Is Gene Therapy?
DNA strands
Causes and Risk Factors of Fanconi Anemia
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What Is Kallmann Syndrome?
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What Is Von Hippel-Lindau Disease?
Cholesterol blood labs
What Is My Familial Hypercholesterolemia Inheritance Risk?
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Causes and Risk Factors of Xeroderma Pigmentosum
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What Is Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia?
Boy in a long-sleeved jacket on the beach at night holding a lamp.
What Is Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Avoiding UV light with xeroderma pigmentosum
How Xeroderma Pigmentosum Is Treated
An illustration with a person with ataxia-telangiectasia in a wheelchair with another person walking next to them
What Is Ataxia-Telangiectasia?
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Causes and Risk Factors of Ataxia-Telangiectasia
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How Ataxia-Telangiectasia Is Treated
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How Xeroderma Pigmentosum Is Diagnosed
Child in darkened room to protect from xeroderma pigmentosum
Symptoms of Xeroderma Pigmentosum
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How Ataxia-Telangiectasia Is Diagnosed
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Symptoms of Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Hypophosphatasia Treatment
How Hypophosphatasia Is Treated
Genetic Testing tubes and equipment
How Hypophosphatasia Is Diagnosed
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Hypophosphatasia Symptoms and Causes
Newborn with parents
What Is CLOVES Syndrome?
Doctor and patient
What Is Gardner Syndrome?
Female Brain
What Is Aicardi Syndrome?
Fetal Skull
What Are Craniosynostosis Syndromes?
Chromosome with DNA
What Is Cowden Syndrome?
Signs of Werner Syndrome: Person's face with wrinkles (wrinkles and loss of skin firmness), layer of skin (fat loss in upper layers of skin), skin layer (thinning skin), grey hair (hair greying), bald head or balding head (hair loss), discolored and/or distorted nail (distortion and discoloration of nails), skin with discolorations (skin pigmentation issues)
What Is Werner Syndrome?
X chromosome with defective gene
What Is Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome?
DNA
What Is Bloom Syndrome?
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Living with Hypophosphatasia
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What Is Hypophosphatasia?
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Understanding and Managing Hereditary Angioedema Triggers
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A Parent’s Guide to Hereditary Angioedema
With Dravet syndrome, seizures can be preciptated by a fever
Symptoms and Causes of Dravet Syndrome
Infusion Therapy
An Overview of Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Pompe Disease
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What Is Marfan Syndrome?
Bone Health
What Is Osteopetrosis?
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What Is 5-Alpha Reductase Deficiency?
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What Is a Mutation?
DNA molecule illustration
What Is DNA?
Chromosome, genes, and alleles
What Is an Allele?
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Genetic Predisposition: What It Is, What It Means for You
Genetic Disorder
What Is Pompe Disease?
Fever
What Is Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome?
Family History
What Are Autoinflammatory Diseases?
Baby having temperature taken may have a periodic fever syndrome
What Are Periodic Fever Syndromes?
imperforate anus
What Is an Imperforate Anus?
Medical exam
What Is Turner Syndrome?
Newborn baby
What Is Saethre Chotzen Syndrome?
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What Is X-linked Hypophosphatemia?
duodenal atresia
An Overview of Duodenal Atresia
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An Overview of Goldenhar Syndrome
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An Overview of Amelogenesis Imperfecta
Doctor-Patient
An Overview of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
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An Overview of Fragile X Syndrome
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An Overview of Kabuki Syndrome
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An Overview of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
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An Overview of Morquio Syndrome

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