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1 day ago · Fragile X syndrome is an example of x-linked dominant disorder. Hemophilia is an example of x-linked recessive disorder. Question #3: The nurse is providing education to a 35-year-old female patient with a family history of Huntington’s disease.
1 day ago · In this type of inheritance pattern, each offspring of an affected individual has a 50% risk of inheriting the mutant allele, so are affected with the disorder (see figure). This probability is sex-independent. [38] Sex-dependent or sex-linked genes are traits that are found on the X or Y chromosomes.
1 day ago · Spataro N, Trujillo-Quintero JP, Manso C, et al. High performance of a dominant/X-linked gene panel in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders. Genes (Basel) . 2023;14(3):708. doi: 10.3390/genes14030708 PubMed Google Scholar Cross
3 days ago · Marmor MF, Zeitz C. Riggs-type dominant congenital stationary night blindness: ERG findings, a new GNAT1 mutation and a systemic association. Doc Ophthalmol. 2018;137:57-62. doi: 10.1007/s10633-018-9651-0.
1 day ago · Family history of X-linked disease. Monogenic diseases that are passed through an X-linked inheritance are usually discovered while taking family history or at the birth of a child who is affected. X-linked recessive diseases usually only affect males as they have only one X chromosome and any mutation to the genes on that will cause the disorder.
2 days ago · Patient Buzz Series: Gen Z and Sun Protection Myths. June 4, 2024 Allison Sit. You may want to make an extra effort to encourage your young adult patients to protect their skin from the sun. Recent surveys, as noted in The New York Times, showed that adults born after 1997 – those considered in Gen Z – were more likely to believe sun safety ...
2 days ago · X-linked: The gene is located on the X sex chromosome. Females can be carriers and the disease mostly develops in males, since they have only one X chromosome. Mitochondrial inheritance: The alteration is in the mitochondrial DNA. It can affect both males and females, but is only transmitted maternally. It can appear in each generation
