Genetic discrimination
Genetic discrimination: The potential use of genetic information to discriminate against people in the workplace, in health insurance, or in any other arena.
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- Genetic disease
Genetic disease: A disease caused by an abnormality in an individual’s genome. There are a number of different types of genetic inheritance: Single gene inheritance — Also called Mendelian or monogenic inheritance. This type of inheritance is caused by changes or mutations that occur in the DNA sequence of a single gene. There are more […]
- Genetic immunodeficiency disease
Genetic immunodeficiency disease: See: Primary immunodeficiency disease.
- Genetic infantile agranulocytosis
Genetic infantile agranulocytosis: Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting infection). These children suffer frequent infections from bacteria which in the past led to death in three-quarters of cases before 3 years of age. This disease is also known as severe congenital neutropenia (SCN). […]
- Genetic meltdown
Genetic meltdown: A genomic crisis due to an extraordinarily high rate of mutation, a phenomenon known to occur in viruses and perhaps in other organisms. For example, the antiviral agent Ribavirin acts by inducing genomic meltdown. The drug accelerates the already-high mutation rate of RNA viruses, creates a genomic crisis, and destroys the infectivity of […]
- Genetic screening
Genetic screening: Testing of a population to identify individuals who are at risk for a genetic disease or for transmitting a gene for a genetic disease.