Sentences with phrase «often inherited disorders»

Because mental illnesses are complex, often inherited disorders, scientists have assumed that multiple genes are involved in their cause, each contributing a tiny portion to the total risk.

Not exact matches

«For a patient with insufficient platelets due to bleeding or an inherited disorder, physicians often have to resort to platelet transfusions, which can be difficult to obtain,» said Dr. Wilbur Lam, another of the paper's co-authors and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

More than a decade ago, researchers discovered that individuals with an inherited sleep disorder often carry a particular mutation in a protein called PER2.

Fragile X Syndrome is a genetic disease that causes inherited intellectual disability often associated with autism spectrum disorders as well as with characteristic physical signs.

But an alternative explanation is that inheriting recessive copies of a single gene from both parents often, but not always, causes the disorder.

In humans, a lack of this enzyme underlies Gaucher's disease, an inherited and often fatal disorder caused by the toxic build up of glucocerebroside.

Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is an inherited skin fragility disorder characterized by skin blistering, abnormal wound healing and excessive scarring, which often leads to aggressive skin cancer.

Epilepsy is often an inherited condition and is the most common brain disorder in dogs.

«Puppy lemon laws» which many states use to protect consumers sold dogs with infectious and / or inherited diseases and disorders do not apply to rescue / shelter dogs, so consumers are without recourse when treating their newly purchased dogs, often purchased sight unseen and with no medical history;

An inherited skin disorder seen more often in English Springer Spaniels than some other breeds.

Diversity and inherited disorders: Breeds, and lineages within breeds, are developed through concerted selected breeding often utilizing breeding schemes in which distantly or closely related individuals are bred to «fix» desirable morphological and behavioral traits permitting dogs to reliably pass on those traits to the next generation.

They often inherit mood disorders from their biological families.