In this capacity, he established statewide screening programs for sickle cell disease and heritable neurological disease.
This leads to a higher instance of heritable disease, not extra arms or the like.
For example, hemochromatosis is the name given to several different heritable diseases with the same outcome, excess absorption of iron.
Genetic mutations in the gene encoding Foxp3 have been identified in both humans and mice based on the heritable disease caused by these mutations.
Dogs with heritable diseases, atypical physical and behavioural characteristics are excluded from the program.
To date, no radiation-related evidence of heritable diseases have been observed among the survivors' children.
Tay-Sachs disease (also called Tray-Sachs syndrome) is a genetically heritable disease which causes problems with the metabolism of fat.
It is this linkage disequilibrium that enables scientists to map the locations of mutations that cause heritable genetic diseases.
There is a great deal of evidence to show that schizophrenia is a heritable disease.
Studies involving twins have shown that schizophrenia is a heritable disease.