The egg and sperm each have one half of a set of chromosomes. The egg and sperm together give the baby the full set of chromosomes. A genetic disorder happens when a gene or genes has a problem with its code, and this causes a health problem. Sometimes a genetic disorder happens when a child inherits it from one or both parents. Other times, it happens only in the child and the parents do not have the genetic disorder.
Scientists are learning more and more about genetics. A worldwide research project called The Human Genome Project created a map of all human genes. It shows where the genes are located on the chromosomes.
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The bees are Written By: Anthony Bouchard. JAN 12, In addition, studies of monogenic disease transmission in identical twins have uncovered various nongenetic mechanisms associated with disease.
For example, identical twins with the same mutation in the gene associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, called DMD , can exhibit strikingly different disease phenotypes due to different patterns of X chromosome inactivation Abbadi et al. Finally, monogenic syndromes can sometimes serve as models for complex diseases. Consider the example of Van der Woude syndrome, which is characterized by lower lip pits, orofacial clefts, and even occasional hypodontia.
This disorder is caused by dominant mutations in the IRF6 interferon regulatory factor 6 gene Kondo et al. Scientists have proposed that IRF6 variation may also contribute to isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate Zucchero et al.
Indeed, studies with a large sample data set have shown that IRF6 variation contributes to an expressive proportion of isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate cases Zucchero et al.
In related studies, researchers isolated tooth agenesis, another complex phenotype commonly found in the general population and that is present in a subset of cases of Van der Woude syndrome, and they showed that IRF6 variation contributes to this condition as well Vieira et al.
Such results are of interest because they indicate that the same gene can cause a disease as rare as Van der Woude syndrome with a frequency of , births; Figure 1 and also contribute to much more common defects, such as isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate frequency of births and isolated tooth agenesis frequency of births , that have more complex genetic etiologies.
Armed with knowledge of the human genome sequence and an arsenal of new molecular tools for gene discovery, today's gene hunters are prepared to greatly expand our knowledge of disease-associated genes. Most certainly, our collective knowledge of single-gene diseases, with the help of databases and reference systems, has the potential to advance our understanding of all types of human disease in ways far greater than imagined at the time of each individual discovery.
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