Inherited
61Phenylketonuria (PKU) — Inherited inability to process the amino acid phenylalanine. Newborns are screened for PKU. Treatment is a diet low in …
62Susceptibility genes, breast cancer — Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes make one more susceptible to the disease and so increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Several breast cancer susceptibility genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 have… …
63Syndrome, Hecht — Inherited disorder transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait in which short tight muscles make it impossible to open the mouth fully or keep the fingers straight when the hand is flexed back. The small mouth creates feeding problems. The hands… …
64Syndrome, Marfan — Inherited disorder with long fingers and toes, dislocation of the lens, and aortic wall weakness and aneurysm. (It has been suggested that Abraham Lincoln had Marfan syndrome.) …
65IED — inherited epidermal dysplasia; intermittent explosive disorder …
66Adema disease — inherited parakeratosis …
67Elso heel — inherited spastic paresis …
68cystic fibrosis — inherited children s disease in which there is fibrosis of the pancreas and respiratory infections …
69IED — • inherited epidermal dysplasia; • intermittent explosive disorder …
70genetic — Inherited; having to do with information that is passed from parents to offspring through genes in sperm and egg cells …