hereditary

Pentose phosphate pathway

...ansaldolase) See also G6PDH deficiency - A hereditary disease which disrupts the pentose phosphate pathway. NADPH RNA...

Polymerase chain reaction

... for a variety of tasks, such as the detection of hereditary diseases , the identification of genetic fingerpr...rinting 4.2 Paternity testing 4.3 Detection of hereditary diseases 4.4 Cloning genes 4.5 Mutagenesis 4.6 Analysis of ancient DNA 4.7 Genotyping of spe...

Lysozyme

...ten increased in sarcoidosis . In some forms of hereditary amyloid , the cause is a mutation in the lysozyme gene, which leads to accumulated lysozyme in several tissues (). History Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), who discovered penicillin , described lysozyme in 1922 (Fleming A. On a remarkable bac...

Liver

...viruses but also by some poisons, autoimmunity or hereditary conditions. Cirrhosis is the formation of fibr... other toxins, or hepatitis Hemochromatosis , a hereditary disease causing the accumulation of iron in the body, eventually leading to liver damage Cance...

Genetics

...zation 1903 Chromosomes are discovered to be hereditary units 1905 British biologist William Bateson ...utations 1928 Frederick Griffith discovers a hereditary molecule that is transmissible between bacteria (see Griffiths experiment ) 1931 Crossing over ...

Gene therapy

... cells and tissues to treat a disease , and hereditary diseases in particular.Gene therapy typically aims to supplement a defective mutant allele with a functional one. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it has been used with some success. Antisense therapy is not strictly a form of ...

Gene

...mmon speech, "gene" is often used to refer to the hereditary cause of a trait , disease or condition—as in "the gene for obesity ." Speaking more precisely, a biologist might refer to an allele or a mutation that has been implicated in or is associated with obesity. This is because biologist...

Eugenics

... the human species over generations in regards to hereditary features. The idea was first formulated by Sir F...basic argument was that "genius" and "talent" were hereditary traits in humans (though neither he nor Darwin had yet a working model of this type of heredity), an...

Diabetes mellitus

...dition, a small proportion of type 1 cases has the hereditary condition maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY). Some poisons (e.g. certain rat poisons ) work by selectively destroying certain types of cells, including pancreatic beta cells, thus producing "artificial" type 1 diabetes. Other pancreatic ...

Cancer

... number of recognised syndromes of cancer with a hereditary component. Examples are: breast cancer and ovarian cancer in female carriers of BRCA1 tumors of various endocrine organs in multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN types 1, 2a, 2b) Li-Fraumeni syndrome (various tumors such as osteosarcoma...