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An example of how the liability threshold works can be seen in individuals with cleft lip and palate. Cleft lip and palate is a birth defect in which an infant is born with unfused lip and palate tissues. An individual with cleft lip and palate can have unaffected parents who do not seem to have a family history of the disorder. [citation needed]
Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation (CDG) Congenital hyperinsulinism; Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) Conjoined twins; Costello syndrome; Craniopagus parasiticus; Cri du chat syndrome; Cyclopia; Cystic fibrosis
The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child. There are over 6,000 known genetic disorders in humans.
Emanuel syndrome, also known as derivative 22 syndrome, or der(22) syndrome, is a rare disorder associated with multiple congenital anomalies, including profound intellectual disability, preauricular skin tags or pits, and conotruncal heart defects.
Two unaffected people who each carry one copy of the mutated gene have a 25% risk with each pregnancy of having a child affected by the disorder. Examples of this type of disorder are albinism, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, Tay–Sachs disease, Niemann–Pick disease, spinal muscular ...
Disability-adjusted life year for childhood-cluster diseases per 100,000 inhabitants. These include pertussis , poliomyelitis , diphtheria , measles , and tetanus . no data
Advanced sleep phase disorder; Aerotoxic syndrome; Afferent loop syndrome; Aicardi syndrome; Aicardi–Goutières syndrome; AIDS dysmorphic syndrome; Al-Raqad syndrome; Alagille syndrome; Albinism–deafness syndrome; Alcohol withdrawal syndrome; Alezzandrini syndrome; Alice in Wonderland syndrome; Alien hand syndrome; Allan–Herndon–Dudley ...
The hallmark features of the syndrome are intellectual disability, global developmental delays, global motor planning delays, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autistic features. Although ADNP syndrome was only identified in 2014, it is projected to be one of the most frequent single-gene causes of ASD.