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Fact sheet 07. AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE. INHERITANCE. This fact sheet talks about how genes afect our health when they follow a well understood pattern of genetic inheritance known as autosomal recessive inheritance. IN SUMMARY. Genes contain the instructions for growth and development.
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Jun 2, 2021 · Autosomal recessive (AR) diseases constitute a subset of genetic disorders that are responsible for a considerable disease burden, affecting ~1.7–5 in 1000 neonates (compared to 1.4 in 1000 for autosomal dominant disorders) 1.
- Qingyang Xiao, Volker M. Lauschke
- 10.1038/s41525-021-00203-x
- 2021
- NPJ Genom Med. 2021; 6: 41.
- What does it mean if a disorder seems to run in my family?
- For general information about disorders that run in families:
- 2 Why is it important to know my family health history?
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- 3 What are the different ways a genetic condition can be inherited?
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- 5 What are reduced penetrance and variable expressivity?
- Reduced penetrance
- Variable expressivity
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- 6 What do geneticists mean by anticipation?
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- 7 What are genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy?
- Uniparental disomy
- For more information about genomic imprinting and UPD:
- 8 Are chromosomal disorders inherited?
- 9 Why are some genetic conditions more common in particular ethnic groups?
- For more information about genetic disorders that are more common in certain groups:
- 10 What is heritability?
particular disorder might be described as “running in a family” if more than one person in the family has the condition. Some disorders that affect multiple family members are caused by gene variants (also known as mutations), which can be inherited (passed down from parent to child). Other conditions that appear to run in families are not caused b...
MedlinePlus Genetics provides consumer-friendly summaries of genetic conditions (http s://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/). Each summary includes a brief description of the condition, an explanation of its genetic cause, and information about the condition's frequency and pattern of inheritance. The Genetic Science Learning Center at the Univer...
A family health history is a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. A complete record includes information from three generations of relatives, including children, brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, grandparents, and cousins. Families have similar genetic backgrounds, and often ...
Additional educational resources related to information about family history (https://medl ineplus.gov/familyhistory.html) is available from MedlinePlus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides information about the importance of family health history (https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/famhistory/index.htm ). This resource also inc...
Some genetic conditions are caused by variants (also known as mutations) in a single gene. These conditions are usually inherited in one of several patterns, depending on the gene involved: Autosomal dominant. One altered copy of the gene in each cell is sufficient for a person to be affected by an autosomal dominant disorder. In some cases, an aff...
The Centre for Genetics Education provides information about different inheritance patterns: Autosomal dominant inheritance (https://www.genetics.edu.au/SitePages/Autosoma l-dominant-inheritance.aspx) Autosomal recessive inheritance (https://www.genetics.edu.au/SitePages/Autosoma l-recessive-inheritance.aspx) X-linked dominant inheritance (https://...
Reduced penetrance and variable expressivity are factors that influence the effects of particular genetic changes. These factors usually affect disorders that have an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, although they are occasionally seen in disorders with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern.
Penetrance refers to the proportion of people with a particular genetic variant (or gene mutation) who exhibit signs and symptoms of a genetic disorder. If some people with the variant do not develop features of the disorder, the condition is said to have reduced (or incomplete) penetrance. Reduced penetrance often occurs with familial cancer syndr...
Although some genetic disorders exhibit little variation, most have signs and symptoms that differ among affected individuals. Variable expressivity refers to the range of signs and symptoms that can occur in different people with the same genetic condition. For example, the features of Marfan syndrome vary widely— some people have only mild sympto...
Additional information about penetrance and expressivity (https://www.merckmanuals.c om/home/fundamentals/genetics/inheritance-of-single-gene-disorders) is available from the Merck Manual Consumer Version.
The signs and symptoms of some genetic conditions tend to become more severe and appear at an earlier age as the disorder is passed from one generation to the next. This phenomenon is called anticipation. Anticipation is most often seen with certain genetic disorders of the nervous system, such as Huntington disease, myotonic dystrophy, and fragile...
The Merck Manual Professional Version provides a brief explanation of anticipation as part of its chapter on nontraditional inheritance (https://www.merckmanuals.com/profess ional/special-subjects/general-principles-of-medical-genetics/unusual-aspects-of-inherit ance). The Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation describes anticipation in the context of myoto...
Genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy are factors that influence how some genetic conditions are inherited.
Uniparental disomy (UPD) occurs when a person receives two copies of a chromosome, or part of a chromosome, from one parent and no copies from the other parent. UPD can occur as a random event during the formation of egg or sperm cells or may happen in early fetal development. In many cases, UPD likely has no effect on health or development. Becaus...
The National Human Genome Research Institute provides a definition of genetic imprinting (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Genetic-Imprinting) in its Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms. The University of Utah offers a basic overview of genomic imprinting (https://learn.geneti cs.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/imprinting/). Additional informati...
Although it is possible to inherit some types of chromosomal abnormalities, most chromosomal disorders (such as Down syndrome and Turner syndrome) are not passed from one generation to the next. Some chromosomal conditions are caused by changes in the number of chromosomes. These changes are not inherited, but occur as random events during the form...
Some genetic disorders are more likely to occur among people who trace their ancestry to a particular geographic area. People in an ethnic group often share certain versions of their genes, which have been passed down from common ancestors. If one of these shared genes contains a disease-causing variant (also known as a mutation), a particular gene...
The Norton & Elaine Sarnoff Center for Jewish Genetics provides information on disorders that occur more frequently in people with Jewish ancestry, including genetic traits that tend to be more common in Ashkenazi Jews (https://www.juf.org/cjg/Ashkena zi-Jewish-Disorders.aspx) and Sephardic Jews (https://www.juf.org/cjg/Sephardic-Jewis h-Disord...
Heritability is a measure of how well differences in people’s genes account for differences in their traits. Traits can include characteristics such as height, eye color, and intelligence, as well as disorders like schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. In scientific terms, heritability is a statistical concept (represented as h2) that describ...
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Autosomal recessive diseases, however, require two copies of the deleterious allele for the disease to manifest.
Jan 10, 2001 · Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyoses (ARCI) are lifelong skin disorders with generalized scaling and variable erythema that typically manifest at birth or early infancy.
Oct 24, 2018 · Autosomal recessive forms of intellectual disabilities (ARID) contribute to about 10% of cases in an outbred population. In consanguineous families, the risk for ARID is a magnitude higher and the total risk for ID is about 2–3 times higher than for children of parents who are not related.
