Sentences with phrase «known genetic abnormalities»
Many have disorders such as Down's syndrome and fragile X syndrome, which are linked to known genetic abnormalities and so are easily diagnosed.
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The top contributors to poor sperm quality include health conditions, genetic abnormalities, environmental exposures and lifestyle behaviors that are known to impact sperm production.
Chromosome abnormalities are known to increase the risk of miscarriage and implantation failure — as well as causing genetic conditions like Down's syndrome.
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.
Several of the genetic regions contributing to face shape detected by the researchers contain genes known to play a role in facial development and facial abnormalities.
Dogs exhibit the same behavioral characteristics, respond to the same medication, have a genetic basis to the disorder, and we now know have the same structural brain abnormalities as people with OCD,» said Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVB, professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.
The first of these networks is that comprising the principal molecular abnormalities (genetic or acquired), when known, that have been associated with the general phenotype (primary disease genome or proteome, G).
In back - to - back papers published online July 28 in Science, researchers from the Broad Institute, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have confirmed genetic abnormalities previously suspected in head and neck cancer, including defects in the tumor suppressor gene known as p53.
The process, known as prenatal screening, is already used to determine whether an embryo exhibits signs of conditions like Down syndrome and diseases like sickle cell anemia, but it could also be used to identify any other genetic abnormalities — particularly genetic mutations — exhibited by an embryo.
Hunter syndrome, formally known as mucopolysaccharidose disorder, is a genetic abnormality occurring in canines and humans.