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The discovery that the gene defect in Blau syndrome involves the CARD15/NOD2 gene has sparked investigation into its function as part of the innate immune system. The innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns, including bacterial polysaccharides such as muramyl dipeptide, via its pattern recognition receptors, such as NOD2, to induce signaling pathways that ...
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.
Due to the wide range of genetic disorders that are known, diagnosis is widely varied and dependent of the disorder. Most genetic disorders are diagnosed pre-birth, at birth, or during early childhood however some, such as Huntington's disease, can escape detection until the patient begins exhibiting symptoms well into adulthood. [35]
A. Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome; Abetalipoproteinemia; Absent tibia-polydactyly-arachnoid cyst syndrome; Acanthosis nigricans-muscle cramps-acral enlargement syndrome
Autosomal dominant Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 2 with giant axons; Autosomal dominant GTP cyclohydrolase I deficiency; Autosomal dominant intellectual disability-craniofacial anomalies-cardiac defects syndrome; Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features
If an individual receives one normal gene and one gene for the disease, the person will be a carrier for the disease, but usually will not show symptoms. [5] Carrier females usually do not display symptoms of the disorder because it is usually the X chromosome with the abnormal gene that is "turned off". [3]
Autosomal genetic disorders can arise due to a number of causes, some of the most common being nondisjunction in parental germ cells or Mendelian inheritance of deleterious alleles from parents. Autosomal genetic disorders which exhibit Mendelian inheritance can be inherited either in an autosomal dominant or recessive fashion. [ 7 ]
The disease follows an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, meaning that an individual must inherit two copies of the mutated gene involved in each cell to develop the condition. [12] In most cases, when a person has this autosomal recessive condition, their parents act as carriers.