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| | Animal Health Trust Factsheets |
 | | Another hereditary eye condition affecting the lens is lens luxation, in which, usually in dogs of three to five years of age, the lens in one eye, invariably followed by the second, falls away from its attachment within the eye and sets up a pressure, or secondary glaucoma, which is both painful and blinding. | | | It must be understood that not all congenital conditions are inherited and not all hereditary conditions are congenital. | | | The condition is pain free and cataract operations are frequently performed in the dog. |
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http://www.aht.org.uk/fsheets/fsheets6.html
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| | Dogs - Hereditary and Congenital Diseases Article: NZYMES.COM |
| | Hip dysplasia, umbilical hernias, and allergies, for example, are common conditions found in many breeds, while serious malformations (such as the lysosomal storage diseases) and life- threatening diseases (such as hemophilia and certain cancers) are found with less frequency. | | | Dermatomyositis: a disease affecting the skin and muscles, usually in collies or Shetland sheepdogs. | | | Eosinophilic panosteitis: a painful inflammatory bone disease of young, rapidly growing dogs, often characterized by increased eosinophils in the blood. |
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http://www.nzymes.com/Articles/hereditary_congenital_diseases_in_dogs.htm
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| | Dog Diseases Can Be Hereditary, Says Texas A&M Prof |
| | There are nearly 400 known diseases that are hereditary in nature, meaning they can be passed from one generation of dog to another. | | | A related disease in both children and dogs is fucosidosis, which Murphy says is a neurological disorder that can affect the spinal cord and cause numerous problems and can be fatal. | | | Numerous other diseases can be passed from one generation of dogs to the next, Murphy says. |
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http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/00/051600-3.html
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| | American Chesapeake Club - Eye Diseases (part 1 of 2) |
| | Because the inheritance is not defined, and entropion does not result in a vision threatening condition, dogs with entropion are not disqualified from obtaining a CERF number. | | | For this reason, primary surgical correction which involves removal of extra skin from the affected lid, is usually not performed until dogs are six months of age or older. | | | Golden Retrievers are also affected with hereditary cataracts. |
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http://www.amchessieclub.org/aeyedis1.html
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| | Hereditary skin diseases (from skin disease) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Provides consumer fact sheets on a range of diseases, announcements of upcoming events and press releases, consensus statements and other scientific resources, information about grants and research training programs, and reports on ongoing and completed clinical studies. | | | Arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health that conducts and supports research and research training focusing on normal functions and diseases of the bones, joints, muscles, and skin. | | | A skin test is usually considered positive when the skin becomes red and swollen at the site of contact with the test material... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-26809?tocId=26809
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| | Victorian Canine Association - Guidelines for Responsible Breeders |
| | National Breed Councils and Breed Clubs are recognised as the guardians of their breed and, for the long-term benefit to the breed; breeders should participate in any hereditary disease control programs conducted by these bodies within their breed. | | | Find out what hereditary diseases, if any, are known to be problems within your breed – ask | | | There are real reasons for concern about hereditary diseases: |
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http://www.vca.org.au/dogworld/breeding/articles/breed_art004.html
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| | Department of Neurology, University of Utah |
| | This training program, entitled Research Training in Inherited Neurological Disease, is dedicated to the development of clinical and basic researchers to study the fundamental mechanisms of neurogenetic illnesses. | | | • hereditary diseases of nerve and muscle which are predominantly congenital or childhood-onset, spinal muscular atrophy, movement disorders including alternating hemiplegia of childhood and familial dystonia, and hereditary predisposition to cranial neuropathies (Dr. Kathy Swoboda; 801-585-9717) | | | • hereditary parkinsonism, essential tremor, spastic paraplegia, and hereditary diseases of nerve and muscle (Dr. Kevin Flanigan; 801-587-9540) |
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http://www.utahneurology.org/neuro_gen.html
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| | Hereditary Disease Foundation Home Page |
| | Our intent is to raise money for the Hereditary Disease Foundation, which funds scientific research seeking cures for diseases such as Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. | | | Through grants, fellowships, the CHDI, and the workshop program, the Foundation continues to build a research community committed to the cure of Huntington's disease and related disorders. | | | Our program includes research grants, John J. Wasmuth postdoctoral fellowships, Milton Wexler postdoctoral fellowships, the Lieberman Award, as well as our fast-track Cure HD Initiative (CHDI). |
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http://www.hdfoundation.org
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Patient power |
| | He says it could be difficult to reach a unified position on embryo research, for example, if patient advocacy groups are divided along religious lines. | | | The idea of patients applying for patents is just one new strategy for what could become one of world's most powerful political lobbies. | | | Terry doesn't rule out the idea of expanding the alliance to include charities focusing on more widespread illnesses such as cancer. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn448
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| | Sunnyway Labs' Hereditary Diseases Page |
| | This disease occurs in the shoulder and other joints of the Labrador and other large breeds. | | | As an affected dog ages movement becomes painful and the back legs become lame. | | | There is no treatment for PRA so the disease must be controlled by the testing of breeding dogs. |
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http://www.geocities.com/sunnywaylabs/Hereditary-Diseases.html
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| | GN Online: Plans drawn up to protect babies from hereditary deformities |
| | She said a special laboratory for hereditary diseases was set up at Al Nahyan Centre for Maternity and Child care last year. | | | Our research shows that the percentage of those born with deformities here are on par with worldwide figures, expect for those with heart deformities." | | | There will also be a hereditary diseases laboratory, check-ups for newborn children and a national registry for hereditary diseases. |
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=21596
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| | KinderStart - Health/Medical/Dental : Hereditary Diseases |
| | You can find information about the basic causes of colorectal cancer, how colorectal cancer is diagnosed, what surgical therapies are available, and complications of hereditary colorectal cancer. | | | This site is here to educate and inform people about colorectal cancer, specifically hereditary colorectal cancer. | | | The Hereditary Disease Foundation is a non-profit, basic science organization dedicated to the cure of genetic disease. |
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http://www.kinderstart.com/healthmedicaldental/hereditarydiseases.html
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| | Are Plant Diseases Hereditary? by Alfred Russel Wallace |
| | They will say: "Many diseases of man and animals are hereditary; why should not the same rule apply in plants?" And, indeed, the statement of Professor Hartig being expressly limited to the vegetable world would seem to acknowledge that it does apply in the case of animals. | | | The only diseases which appear to be really transmitted are those in which a mother suffers from one of the zymotic diseases previous to the birth of her child, and the disease germs through her blood obtain access to the blood of her unborn offspring. | | | This is clearly the case with gout and consumption, which have both been held to be hereditary, but in no case has an infant been born suffering from these diseases. |
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http://www.wku.edu/~charles.smith/wallace/S596.htm
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| | The Johns Hopkins Center for Hereditary Eye Diseases |
| | Before a therapy for Leber’s congenital amaurosis can be devised, the mechanisms of the disease must be clearly understood. | | | Among the diseases currently being studied in the laboratory is Leber’s congenital amaurosis. | | | Maumenee has particular expertise in the medical management of Leber’s congenital amaurosis, Norrie disease, retinoblastoma, Peters’ anomaly; and the surgical management of congenital cataracts, congenital glaucoma, and Nance-Horan syndrome. |
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http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/research/hered.html
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| | Hereditary Diseases |
| | Most of our characteristics are controlled by more than one pair of alleles and can also be influenced by our environment. | | | Only a few genetic diseases are caused by dominant alleles, which means that even heterozygotes will develop the disease. | | | Cystic Fibrosis is the most common inherited disease affecting about one in every 2500 children. |
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http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/847.html
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| | Hereditary Metabolic Diseases |
| | Epidemiological studies applying new neonatal screening methods to assess the frequency of some diseases that develop acutely in the newborn | | | Metabolic diseases are characterized by genetic defects that interfere with the normal function of metabolic mechanisms in the human body. | | | Carbohydrate disorders, description of a new disease with hyperinsulinemia and hyperammoniemia |
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http://www.pediatria.unipd.it/repser/e_dbase2generale.asp?attivita=36
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| | Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities |
| | Patients and laypersons looking for guidance among the target sources of this collection of links are strongly advised to review the information retrieved with their professional health care provider. | | | Developmental and Genetic Diseases, with images - Geneva Foundation for Medicla Education and Research (CH) | | | Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention at CDC (US) |
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http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c16.html
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| | 23.22 |
| | A congenital disease may or may not be hereditary. | | | 23.22.1 Familial diseases which are not hereditary should be indexed with the term FAMILY HEALTH (NIM for articles on a specific disease in a family, as opposed to the concept in general). | | | 23.22 Index familial (hereditary) diseases using the disease term with the subheading /genetics (see 19.8.34). |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/indexingmanual/23_22.htm
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| | Accordingly, the fact that a disease is of a hereditary or familial nature does not necessarily rebut the presumption that the disease was incurred in service. | | | Organic diseases of the nervous system are included as chronic diseases subject to the presumption of service connection. | | | Section 3.307(b) excludes from the diseases subject to presumptive service connection, any disease listed in section 3.309(a) which results from intercurrent causes such as a cerebral hemorrhage or which results from drug ingestion or a complication of some other condition not related to service. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hereditary Diseases |
| | Genetic Disorders, medical conditions caused by an error in a person’s genetic material. | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hereditary Diseases | | | Hereditary Diseases, diseases passed on from one generation to the next, caused by defects in the genetic code that comes from the parents of a... |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Hereditary_Diseases.html
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| | Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases |
| | Article I. (1.) Anyone who is suffering from a hereditary disease can be sterilized by a surgical operation if, according to the experiences of medical science, it is to be expected with great probability that his offspring will suffer from serious hereditary physical or mental defects. | | | The decision is to be communicated to the person who made the application, to the civil service doctor as well as to the person hose sterilization has been applied for, or, if the latter has not the right to make an application, to his or her legal representative. | | | Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases |
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http://www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/genocide/berg1.html
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| | Manbir Online ... Hereditary Diseases |
| | The result can be a disease, such as cystic fibrosis. | | | Many hereditary diseases are passed on within families from one generation to the next. | | | Whether or not a specific trait or disorder is inherited is determined by hereditary material called "genes." Genes are the units of hereditary material. |
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http://www.manbir-online.com/htm2/hereditary.htm
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| | Hereditary Glomerular Diseases |
| | All patients had at least one relative with renal disease. | | | A genetic disease characterized by the onset of hematuria in early childhood and later progression to renal failure, predominantely in males, accompanied by the development of sensorineural (high frequency) hearing loss. | | | Early in the disease, clinically manifestations are related to defects in proximal tubular function. |
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http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/internalmed/nephro/webpages/Part_J.htm
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| | How does heredity influence disease? |
| | Even with a dominant allele such as the BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene, for instance, the risk of disease by age 65 is 80 percent, not 100 percent. | | | However, such a person is a carrier who has a 50-50 chance of passing the altered recessive allele to each of his or her descendants. | | | A person who inherits one copy of the recessive allele does not develop disease because the normal allele predominates. |
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/NIH/gene08.html
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| | Sclerotic stage Disease can be monostotic (15%) or polyostotic (85%). | | | Another group with relative high incidence are those with other primary lesions (Paget's disease, irradiation, bone infarcts, multiple osteochondromatosis, and Ollier's disease.) Clinical: Bone pain Pathologic fracture Codman's triangle Starburst X-ray Pulmonary metastases Cartilaginous Tumors - Benign Osteochondroma These lesions (exostoses) occur primarily on the long bones of the extremities. | | | Typically the term osteoporosis refers to its primary forms which include postmenopausal and senile disease. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9056/bone.html
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| | Optic Atrophies, Hereditary - Hereditary Optic Atrophy - information page with HONselect |
| | Definition: Hereditary conditions that feature progressive visual loss in association with optic atrophy. | | | The disease has been associated with missense mutations in the mtDNA, in genes for Complex I, III, and IV polypeptides, that can act autonomously or in association with each other to cause the disease. | | | Broader term(s): - Optic Nerve Diseases - Cranial Nerve Diseases - Nervous System Diseases - Neurodegenerative Diseases - Eye Diseases, Hereditary - Eye Diseases |
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http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/RareDiseases/EN/C10.292.700.225.500.html
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| | Alphabetic List, Diseases and Disorders |
| | Airflow Obstruction, Chronic (see Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive) | | | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (see Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive) | | | Chronic Airflow Obstruction (see Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive) |
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http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/alphalist.html
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| | Eye Diseases |
| | Conjunctival Diseases [4 more specific term/s, 1 more link/s] | | | Corneal Diseases [7 more specific term/s, 3 more link/s] | | | Uveal Diseases [4 more specific term/s, 3 more link/s] |
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http://medir.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/C11/C11.html
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| | Generational Health: Chart Your Family Health History |
| | As you identify some of the medical problems your relatives may have faced, you will have the opportunity to learn more about these diseases and conditions that may be hereditary, including potential causes and the role that heredity may play in their development. | | | Suggestions of what can be done to focus on prevention and early detection are also featured. | | | The family health tree you build at this site can go back as far as 2 generations. |
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http://www.generationalhealth.com
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| | Eye Diseases, Hereditary |
| | Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary [1 more specific term/s, 0 more link/s] |
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http://medir.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/C11/C11.270.html
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| | Hereditary diseases [rec.humor.funny] |
| | To: Personnel Medical Records Re: Family Medical History My supervisor told me you would like an explanation of the hereditary diseases plaguing my family. | | | I first sent this as a memo to a friend at work. |
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http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q3/faterosa.html
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