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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and
There are over 250 recognized sex-linked diseases, affecting every organ
system. Of these, 95% affect males, (Emery, 1968). Despite these many sex-
linked diseases, at pr .... Middle of Term Paper
... substance accumulates in the body because of
the missing enzyme which would ordinarily break this compound into
pieces.(Nora,1989). This missing enzyme causes kidney and blood-vessel problems
that lead to high blood pressure, kidney failure and strokes.(Mulinsky, 1989).
After many years of symptoms, most patients have died in their thirties and
forties owing to a lack specific treatment.
A biochemical disorder also caused by a missing enzyme is the Lesch-
Nyhan syndrome, an extremely unpleasant disorder characterized not only by
profound mental retardation and features of brain damage (stiff limbs with
peculiar movements), but also self ... |
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