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  What is hereditary disease?

  Posted by Jyothi krishna on May 21, 2021 at 9:48 pm

  What is hereditary diseases? Which are they?

  Aparajita replied 1 year, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply

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  Aparajita

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  May 21, 2021 at 11:22 pm

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  Hereditary diseases are also known as Inherited Diseases or Genetic Disorders. These are basically diseases that are occurred to a being because of it being passes over the generation due to defective genes.

  There are many diseases that come over in a generation. It is not specific to particular generation; it travels down the line up to seventh generation too.

  There are wide range of diseases that come under this category, following is list of few of them:

  1. Hemophilia

  2. Muscular dystrophy

  3. Albinism

  4. Turner syndrome

  5. Galactosemia

  And many more.

  I hope this answer helps!😊

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