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Article: Genetic Diseases
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Genetic Diseases
What Is Heredity?
What Causes Genetic Diseases?
How Are Diseases Inherited?
What Are the Common Inheritance Patterns of Genetic Diseases?
The Past and Future of Genetic Diseases
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Genetic diseases are disorders that are inherited by a person from his or her parents or are refaed to some type of spontaneous genetic change.
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Birth defects
Gene therapy
Genetic counseling
Genetics
Hereditary diseases
Human genome
Prenatal diagnosis
What Is Heredity?
Every person develops under the influence of a mix of genes inherited from his or her mother and father. These genes, or small parts ...