genetic disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticanddisease
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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However, it is now clear from classical experiments in mice and from examples of humangeneticdiseasethat this is not the case.
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One motivation for combatinggeneticdiseaseis the hope of saving money by averting births of infants with costly disorders.
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They note that there are few effective interventions in the course ofgeneticdisease.
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He also has a strong interest ingeneticdiseasein dogs, and in control schemes to eliminate particular diseases from certain breeds.
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But again there is an alternative - in this case, preimplantation genetic diagnosis - so fertile couples would not need to use cloning to preventgeneticdisease.
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Therefore, pharmacological chaperones show great promise as a new class of therapeutic agents that can be specifically tailored for a particulargeneticdisease.
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Finally, the blastocyst is an optimal stage for embryo biopsy, often necessary for the evaluation ofgeneticdisease.
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Hastings (2000) briefly noted that human reproductive technology could result in reproductive compensation, and examined its effects on autosomalgeneticdisease.
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The first part deals with environmental modifications which are useful in the treatment ofgeneticdisease.
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This research programme is aimed at generating large numbers of new mouse phenotypes, many of which carry disorders that model humangeneticdisease.
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For cases where the risks ofgeneticdiseaseare much higher however, the effort may be justified.
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Much of this research has however been of interest in relation to cell proliferation andgeneticdisease.
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What proceeded over the next 6 weeks were multiple blood tests, consultations with hematologists, liver specialists,geneticdiseasespecialists.
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If a neonate were born with a painful, debilitating, and fatalgeneticdisease, for example, we could reasonably make such a statement.
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Population genetics has been reasonably represented, both at the descriptive and the analytical level, and so has the social impact ofgeneticdisease.
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This original case changed the way geneticists view inheritance of diseases that affect the human population and described a new inheritance pattern ofgeneticdisease.
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It is the onlygeneticdiseaseknown to result in pathologically enlarged teeth.
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This is in agreement with the conclusion that cancer is a primarily ageneticdisease.
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Consider the following example : a family planned to have three children but one subsequently died from ageneticdisease.
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