Morgan Koops is a middle aged female living in the United States. She recently went to get a new Social Security Card and was denied. They were able to discover that she was originally from Russia‚ but was given up for adoption at a young age. Her birth files and certificates were destroyed from an aftermath of the Cold War in 1992. The U.S. Adoption Agency has contacted us to try and find out‚ who her birth parents are. They have given us five couples that are possibly the birth parents of
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Fryns syndrome is a rare congenital disorder that affects the development of the body and is characterized by coarse facial features‚ diaphragmatic hernia‚ pulmonary hypoplasia‚ distal digital hypoplasia‚ and other various associated anomalies.. There is a 25 percent risk of recurrence and the prevalence of Fryns is 0.7: 10‚000 births in France [2]. It affects 1:15‚000 live births [3]. J. P. Fryns first described Fryns syndrome in 1979. It was first described with two still born female siblings
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“Signs and symptoms of Gaucher’s disease can vary wildly. Siblings‚ even identical twins‚ with the same disease may have different levels of severity” (Mayo Clinic). While many people who get the disease can live long lives‚ most infants who get the disease die by age 1 (Vance). Gaucher’s disease is a rare genetic disorder that results in the buildup of cerebrosides‚ a type of fatty molecule‚ eventually causing damage to the spleen‚ liver‚ central nervous system‚ and bones. There are four types
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This project is beneficial because regeneration is a big topic right now and regeneration in biology is the process of renewal ‚ restoration ‚ and growth that makes genomes ‚ cells ‚ organisms ‚ and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbances or damage. So regeneration is only applicable to some animals but in the future it could grow to other animals and maybe in the far future humans with the proper research and experimentation . my data will allow scientist
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Angel Delgado Mr. Perez 11-30-12 Per. 2 Frame Shift Mutation Have you ever wondered how a mutation can affect a human body? There are multiple mutations that affect the human body‚ but I chose to research about frame shift mutations. A frame shift mutation is the deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides in a DNA strand. Frame shift mutations changes the “reading frame” of a DNA strand. For example‚ if a single nucleotide gets inserted to a DNA strand‚ the nucleotides in front of
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Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is a gene disorder characterized by the rapid aging in the beginning stages of childhood. The children affected by HGP may look ordinary at birth and in the early stages of life‚ but soon they will begin to develop more slowly and not gain weight at a healthy rate. The syndrome will affect the child’s appearance and development. HGP is a serious childhood disorder that can really affect‚ not only the child‚ but the family as well. To start off‚ the cause of HGP
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Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. People with Sickle Cell Disease have abnormal hemoglobin‚ called hemoglobin S or sickle hemoglobin‚ in their red blood cells. People with SCD inherit two abnormal hemoglobin genes‚ one from each of their parents. One of these abnormal hemoglobin genes causes the production of hemoglobin S in the body.1 When a person has two hemoglobin S genes‚ Hemoglobin SS‚ this disease is called Sickle Cell Anemia.1 This is the most common
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Genetic diseases are kind of disease caused by the genetic material that makes up a person.They are caused by abnormalities in genes that are referred to as variations.Some of these diseases are caused entirely by genes while others are a combination of genetic and environmental factors.The genetic disorder can also be inherited from parent to child. These diseases are of different types and have different causes.One type is called a single gene disorder‚ Genetic diseases which fall into this category
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Dr. Reinlib plans to represent NIEHS at the Gordon Research Conference on Mammary Gland Biology‚ an international forum that discusses and highlights the environmental influences and biological basis of alterations in human breast and mammary gland predisposes a woman to breast cancer. These areas of research are of international concern; both in Western and developing countries. However‚ population – or even laboratory - studies are rare that focus on the early exposures or developmental changes
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Did you know that 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women have color blindness? The effect color blindness has on you is inability to distinguish colors. Most people who have this disorder are partially colorblind; being fully colorblind is very rare and does not happen a lot. Some of the major causes for color blindness is aging‚ eye problems‚ injury to the eye‚ and side effects to certain medicine. Some symptoms of the disorder are difficulty distinguishing colors‚ inability to see shades or
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