Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Assignment

Genetic Diseases and Disorders

- Trisomy 21 - Thalasemias
- Klinefelters Syndrome - Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- Turner Syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis Type 1 General instructions:
- Familial Hypercholesterolemia Create a table categorizing the diseases
based on the genetic inheritance causing
- Fragile X syndrome
it . You can have 1 table for each
- Achondroplasia misattribution.
- Cystic Fibrosis Have the description, age range affected,
genetic problem (deletion, inversion,
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
etc.), what proteins are affected or
- Gauchers disease defective, and the clinical features that
- Glucose 6-phosphate Dehydrogenase often come with the disease.
deficiency Do not forget to include your sources/
references with which you took the
- Hemochromatosis
information you included in the table.
- Holoproencephaly
- Huntington Chorea
- Marfan Syndrome
- Myoclinic Epilepsy with Ragged Red
Fibers

- Myotonic Dystrophy
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Phenylkeonuria
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Prader Willi/Angelman
- Tay-sachs Disease