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    Genetic Disorder is having to do with your health and body. Some people can get it and some people don’t get it every body is different. Now I am going to tell you what a Genetic disorder is, it’s an illness caused by changes or mutation in a person 's DNA sequence. The mutation can be caused by an error of the DNA replication. It can also be caused by other things such as cigarette smoke and exposure to radiation which causes the change in the DNA sequence. Now I’m going to introduce the human genome

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    Genetics Essay Genetics have affected me by researching mutations, heritability, and genetic disorders. It affected me because I always wanted to learn about my heritability. Genetic disorders and mutations, I did them because I, myself have a genetic disorder and mutation. I wanted to learn more about mutations and genetic disorders as much as my heritability. I decided to also research florigene and goldfish because I love flowers and how they change colors, yet I find glofish amusing and wanted

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    NGLY1 deficiency is a rare genetic disorder that was first discovered in 2012 and has been diagnosed in less than 100 individuals worldwide. This disease is caused by a lack of the enzyme N-glycanase 1, which helps break down defective proteins, explained by Clement Y. Chow, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah. People with this disease tend to experience global developmental delays, seizures, difficulty with movement, problems with liver function

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    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a genetic disorder that affects the nervous system, brain, and spinal cord. There are four types of disease courses linked to the genetic disorder MS. Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), primary-progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS), secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS), and progressive-relapsing multiple sclerosis (PRMS) are the four disease courses of MS. MS is an autoimmune disease, where the body's own defense mechanism attacks itself. In MS

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    By definition, psychiatry is a branch of medicine dedicated to the research and treatment of mental illnesses. Though this subject focuses on disorders of the mind, the biology of the brain wasn’t understood by the majority of psychiatrists for the most part of the 20th century. Indeed, from the 1950s to the 1980s, the field directed most of its attention to psychoanalysis, a set of theories by Sigmund Freud. During those years, psychiatrists were taught to forgo biological research, medical readings

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    Albinism is a disorder where the gene for melanin pigment is decreased, which causes your skin or hair to become a lighter shade. This disorder comes from all different backgrounds. There are two different types of albinism; OCA and OA. From the OCA category, there are seven different subcategories; OCA 1, OCA 2, OCA 3, OCA 4, OCA 5, OCA 6, and OCA 7. Albinism is a recessive inheritance, meaning that there must be two mutated genes from each parent. The symptoms of being an albino are having poor

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    exon is a typical trait shared by other nucleotide repeat disorders, even though the reason of such association remains unknown. At present, more than 30 genetic disorders, often and curiously presenting with neurological impairment, share an altered number of repeated nucleotides, albeit the FMR1 gene mutation is undoubtedly the most studied. A CGG triplet repeat expansion characterizes the FMR1 gene mutation. Although belonging to the genetic conditions

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    Name of disorder To be given the diagnosis of Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) would be a life changing moment for the individual, along with the family. This genetic disorder, which is also known as Kaposi Disease, Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Variant Type XP-V and XP, is a rare genetic disorder. This disorder causes extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) light, it was first described in 1874 by Hebra and Kaposi. The diagnosis comes at a very early age of life with the symptoms including excessive freckling

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    Genetic Disorder: Retinitis Pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa(RP) is an inherited, degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment due to the progressive degeneration of the rod photoreceptor cells in the retina . Retinitis pigmentosa is one of the most common inherited diseases of the retina, affecting 1.5 million people worldwide. Up to 150 mutations are known to cause retinitis pigmentosa, which includes three genetic inheritance patterns- autosomal dominant inheritance, autosomal

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    This protein assists the iron movement from organs and tissues into red blood cells in the blood. There are 40 different gene mutations that can cause the disease called aceruloplasminemia on the CP gene. This disorder causes iron transport problems which will ultimately lead to iron build up and potential neurological dysfunction. The HGD gene, also known as “homogentisate”, provides instructions for making an enzyme called homogentisate oxidase. This enzyme is

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