hereditary disorder
Inherited medical problem
A hereditary disorder is a medical condition passed from parents to offspring through genes.
Such disorders range from relatively common conditions like sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis to rare syndromes affecting only a few families worldwide.
Some hereditary disorders appear in every generation; others skip generations or require defective genes from both parents to manifest.
- geneHereditary information unit
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- rare diseaseAilment with few patients
- cystic fibrosisGenetic disorder thickening mucus
- malformationAbnormally developed structure
hemophilia · muscular dystrophy · phenotype · genetic screening · genetic counseling · dystrophy · penetrance · sickle cell · chromosome · inherited trait · consanguinity · inborn · amniocentesis · developmental delay · recessive · gene therapy · trait · lineage
hereditary disorderlifestyle disease
Condition caused by habits
occupational disease · infectious disease · nutritional deficiency · radiation sickness · degenerative disease
hereditary disorderinfectious disease
Pathogen-caused transmissible ailment
contagious disease · communicable disease · sexually transmitted disease · waterborne disease · contagion
order, disorder, inherit, disorderly, inheritance, heredity, hereditary