Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye condition that can be genetic. In this way, people usually need to inherit two copies of a genetic variation that causes RP, one coming from each parent. RP may ...
Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot as it should. Usually, people have VWD due to their genes, which may come from a male or female parent. Blood ...
Data from this Australian study showed a higher prevalence of intracranial aneurysms (ICAs) in patients with ADPKD compared with the general population. Many patients in the study had no known risk ...
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a rare but serious heart condition that can be hereditary or develop with ...
Panel A shows the clinical characteristics and treatments for all six unrelated patients with autosomal dominant hypocalcemia type 1 (ADH1) who received continuous subcutaneous parathyroid hormone ...
Cockayne syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by changes in the ERCC8 or ERCC6 genes. People with the disorder have many health issues, such as premature aging, that shorten a person’s life ...
Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA), the most common genetic optic neuropathy, is an insidious disease. It often presents slowly during childhood by way of blurry vision, trouble reading or ...
Most people with ALS don’t have a family history of it. Still, some cases of ALS are linked to inheriting specific gene mutations. Even nonfamilial cases can be linked to sporadic gene mutations that ...