Sentences with phrase «multiple diseases inherited»

With this panel, we can identify, or rule out, multiple diseases inherited in Labradors, such as hip dysplasia, ruptured anterior (cranial) cruciate ligament, mast cell tumor, T and B - cell lymphoma, posterior polar cataracts, liver disease, laryngeal paralysis, degenerative myelopathy, epilepsy, tricuspid valve dysplasia and obesity.

Not exact matches

Familial Alzheimer's also affects multiple generations, as the mutations that cause the disease are dominantly inherited and fully penetrant, which means that if a parent has a mutation, he or she has a 50 percent likelihood of passing it on to his or her children.

inherited neurodegenerative disorders, an array of other genetic diseases, and multiple cancers of the bone marrow and lymph nodes.

If the approach also works with human cells, it could eventually lead to cell therapies for diseases like inherited leukodystrophies — disorders of the brain's white matter — and multiple sclerosis, as well as spinal cord injuries.

In addition to his other roles at the institute, he is director of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Training Program, an executive faculty member of the Joint National Institutes of Health - Johns Hopkins University Genetic Counseling Training Program, and the project officer for the Center for Inherited Disease Research in Baltimore, a research center that analyzes common disorders caused by the actions of multiple genes and interactions with the environment.

For such complex hereditary diseases, and dysplasia appears to be one, understanding the pattern of inheritance and making an educated prediction of the likelihood that a puppy will inherit the disease depends on testing multiple relatives of the sire and dam for symptoms.

When clinically normal dogs produce affected offspring, it strongly suggests the disease is inherited as a simple recessive (or potentially a polygenic — multiple gene) trait, and both parents carry one «bad» copy of the gene causing the disease.

Today we find ourselves faced with multiple independently inherited eye diseases.

We have received reports of multiple cases of this disease in families, indicating that it may be inherited.

It should be noted that many breeds of dog are known to carry multiple forms of inherited retinal disease and the DNA test will not replace the need to remain vigilant for other forms of inherited eye disease in the breed.