Genetic disorder

Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disease disorder that makes progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. It literally deteriorates a person's physical and mental abilities, it has no cure. Huntington's disease is known as the quintessential family disease. People affected by this disease can have trouble walking and speaking. Huntington’s Disease was first discovered as an inherited disease in 1872. Huntington’s disease is a dominant gene. Since it is a genetic disease if the…

Spinal muscular atrophy is a disorder that takes away the ability to walk, eat, or breathe. The major causes of this disorder are caused by a mutation in the survival motor cell neuron gene. The symptoms of this disorder are having breathing difficulties, leading to a lack of oxygen. Also if you have a poor muscle tone like a floppy infant. You cannot cure or treat this disorder. Nothing else contributes to this disease, and they have not found anything for it. Basically if you have Spinal…

as well as Australia, due to a higher frequency of certain alleles that are repeated in these populations (Walker, 2007, p. 221). This disease is classified as a neurodegenerative disorder, which is a term that is used to describe CNS disorders/diseases that are progressive (Damjanov, 2012, p. 465). These disorders typically present many different neurologic and psychiatric symptoms, such as “abnormal body movements and progressive mental deterioration”, and it is also possible to have either…

The Tay-Sachs disease was named after ophthalmologist Warren Tay he was the first to spot the cherry- red retina and now it the marker of this bad disease. Another man Bernard Sachs a neurologist was the first to describe the changes in the brain prevalence. Tay-Sachs the disease is something that is inherited from both parents it is when both parents carry the Tay-Sachs gene and both parent transmits the gene that is defective to their child. If a child inherits two Tay-Sachs genes from both…

some of the diseases can be treated and which later on causes for it to make it worse. The diseases that would always be there would be Down Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, Hemophobia, and many more. As you can see, this paper is going to be able a genetic disease that is being passed on from generation onto the next, this disease is called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. We are going to answer some questions that are being frequently being asked by many people for example, what is this disease?…

It is not something that people born with, obesity is an individual life adoptions. Researchers emphasize, it is extremely unlikely that genetic plays important role in obesity. Some people say they are overweight because of they were born with the overweight gene. Claiming obesity is innate obviously only finding justification for an easy way out. For example, like alcoholic, it is clearly…

Angelman Syndrome Description of the Disease An extremely rare and uncommon disease known as Angelman Syndrome is a very complex neurodevelopmental and monogenic disorder (Bailus, 2014). The term neurodevelopmental refers to the shape, reshape, state and generation of the nervous system during the embryonic stages of life, while the term monogenic can be explained as a disease, which is controlled and inherited, by a single pair of genes (Gentile, 2009). It is estimated that Angelman Syndrome…

Tay-sachs disease is a rare disorder that is caused from a missing enzyme that is used to break down fatty substances. The fatty substance is Gangliosides, which begins to build up to a toxic level in a child’s brain and begins to affect their nerve cells. As the disease begins to progress in the child, the control of their muscles weakens and it leads to blindness, paralysis, and eventually death. Symptoms begin to show in the first three to six months of an infant's life, but it can be…

Sickle cell anemia Introduction Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary disorder that affects countries that were previously affected by malaria - mostly the African Americans and Hispanic Americans (Newland, 2013). The people suffering from this disorder have in the past had barriers to access vital health information and care since it was not covered by the affordable act. At the same time, the disorder has had psychological, social, cultural and economic impact on the victims, mostly…

Tay-Sachs Disease What if I told you that there was a disease that could cause your muscles to weaken. That it could also cause your brothers or sisters to die at an early age. Tay-Sachs Disease is a genetic disorder that usually happens in infants and the symptoms don’t show until the 5-6 months. This disease kills thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Tay-Sachs Disease symptoms are diagnosed according to what causes Tay-Sachs. Tay-Sachs is not inherited. Doctors, after diagnosis, will…