Sentences with phrase «by genetic disorders like»

But cardiomyopathy can also be brought on by genetic disorders like muscular dystrophy, which causes abnormalities in a protein called dystrophin.

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And even if such a demand existed, there was no evidence that genetic counseling could help patients with psychiatric disorders, which — like most of the more common diseases — are caused by a complex interplay of multiple genes and variants as well as environmental factors.

This approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann - Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, it's important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases we'd like to treat with CRISPR.

Any mental disorder is probably encoded for by multiple genes, meaning it can not be detected by a simple genetic test as is possible for conditions like Down's syndrome or cystic fibrosis.

Genetic defects like this one are avoided by utilizing selective breeding (hip dysplasia in dogs has between a twenty - five percent and eighty - five percent chance that it's hereditary), however, periodically, a puppy will contract the disorder even if there isn't a history of it in either parent's bloodlines.