Sentences with phrase «causes genetic abnormalities»

A compound used in many common plastic products, including baby bottles and dental sealants, causes genetic abnormalities in mice, say researchers who made the discovery as a result of a mix - up in the lab.

«Incest is abuse of children» is a way of saying it could cause genetic abnormalities and birth defects in the child, therefore harming the child's health.

There are thousands of drugs that silence many thousands of cancer - causing genetic abnormalities.

For women, the hazardous chemicals in cigarettes are poisonous to ovaries by decreasing blood flow, interfering with estrogen production, and causing genetic abnormalities to eggs.

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An electrocardiogram revealed an abnormality, and follow - up tests in June confirmed that Carle has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that is the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes.

Jacobsen Syndrome is a very rare genetic abnormality caused by a partial deletion of chromosome 11.

Born in 1856 in Germany, he was the first doctor to offer theories that genetic mutations and biological abnormalities caused many psychiatric conditions.

Other causes can include placental abruption, infection, pre-eclampsia, problems with the umbilical chord, obstetric cholestasis, or genetic abnormalities.

If a woman experiences recurring miscarriages (more than two), she may ask for — or be offered — genetic counseling to see if there is a genetic abnormality causing the miscarriages.

This may be down to a variety of causes, such as genetic abnormalities, infectious disease, environmental agents or certain behaviors.

Chromosome abnormalities are known to increase the risk of miscarriage and implantation failure — as well as causing genetic conditions like Down's syndrome.

Often, those smaller animals express the genetic abnormality very differently from humans, says clinical scientist and pediatric neurologist James Dowling at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who studies the myopathies and their genetic causes in both children and zebrafish.

While genetic mutations cause some abnormalities in humans, many, including diprosopia, are caused by obstacles faced during development.

Over the next few years, similar maternal blood tests could detect hundreds of diseases caused by chromosome abnormalities or mutations, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Tay - Sachs disease, and genetic deafness and blindness.

Bearden's earlier research had focused on children with abnormalities caused by missing sections of genetic material on chromosome 22, in a location known as 22q11.2.

«While there are clearly other factors that can cause these types of abnormalities, including genetic vulnerabilities, demonstrating that immune activation alone can produce these effects offers new hope for treatments that might reduce their severity, or prevent them altogether, in certain individuals.»

Among them, when MET1 (Methyltransferase 1, involved in maintaining CG methylation) and Pol IV (related to RdDM, RNA directed DNA methylation, which causes de novo methylation) lost their genetic functions, abnormalities were observed in DNA methylation, but there was no observable effect on hybrid vigor.

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

While she was there, the team discovered a gene that played an important role in Rubinstein - Taybi syndrome, a genetic disease that can cause skeletal abnormalities and mental retardation in patients.

Despite the genetic turmoil this causes, scientists have disagreed for nearly a century about whether this abnormality and other types of genomic instability are the starting gun for cancer or merely collateral damage.

The genetic defect causing skeletal abnormalities in Shetland ponies has been identified by researchers at Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Errors in this recombination process during the production of sperm or egg cells underlie a variety of chromosomal abnormalities and can cause deletions of regions of the genome, miscarriage, or genetic disorders such as Down syndrome.

Previous reports have shown that in a genetic abnormality called Philadelphia chromosome, fusion of ABL and BCR genes cause leukemia.

A genetic disorder is caused by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by a genetic abnormalities in the hemoglobin genes which leads to the production of abnormally shaped mature red blood cells, provoking various acute and chronic complications with an accompanying high mortality rate [1].

Finally, there are other causes of microcephaly, brain abnormalities, and other birth defects, including genetic and infectious causes, about which the USZPR has limited information.36 - 38

Elevated blood pressure affects tens of millions of persons and may have genetic and lifestyle abnormalities at its root cause.

These chemicals also cause a womans eggs (oocytes) to be more prone to genetic abnormalities.

Overview: Favism disease is a genetic metabolic abnormality caused by deficiency of the enzyme glucose -6-phosphate dehydrogenase...

Yes, the two conditions (bicuspid or other aortic valve defect and weakening of the adjacent segment of the aorta) indeed tend to go together — but perhaps only because of a predisposition to aortic weakening (thought to be caused by hydraulic abnormalities in flow from the diseased valve); perhaps the predisposition need not be fulfilled if the artery and its lining are healthy as a result of adequate diet — just as a genetic predisposition to heart disease in general need not result in actual disease if diet is adequate.

Other causes of acute pancreatitis include abdominal trauma, medications, infections, tumors, and genetic abnormalities of the pancreas.

Like Hip Dysplasia it can be genetic but Elbow Dysplasia is the general term for any one of many abnormalities within the joint and can also be caused by environmental factors such as rapid growth, obesity, trauma or nutrition.

Causes: The most common cause of glaucoma is a primary abnormality at the drainage angle of the eye, which is usually genetic in origin.

The bitch herself may be of poor temperament or may have a genetic abnormality that is not yet apparent but can cause pain to her in later years or to her offspring.

Beyond that, you must choose your dog carefully to avoid genetic abnormalities that might cause Retriever health problems and hefty vet bills.

If all testing is normal in a dog with partial seizures, many neurologists consider these to be «Cyptogenic» (meaning hidden) seizures that actually have an underlying structural abnormality (i.e. SES), that is undetectable using current methods.5 It is controversial whether partial seizures might be caused by a genetic defect.

Congenital abnormalities (Malformation of the brain during development which may be caused by either genetic or environmental factors such as toxins, radiation or viruses)