There is another hereditary defect unknown in the present day.

Overall a very sound dog they do not appear to suffer from any particular hereditary defects.

In some cases, the husbands had hereditary defects that they elected not to pass on.

There will also be a guarantee that the embryo has no hereditary defects.

Clean up all the hereditary defects at the same time, cancer, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and so forth.

One of my major areas of specialty during my medical training was genetics, especially hereditary defects.

Many genetic disorders involve hereditary defects in receptor genes.

In any case, the hereditary defect of this rare disease is not confirmed in Theo's descendants.

- The correction of hereditary defects.

And as scientists learn to discern hereditary defects with lesser or uncertain implications for health, ethical dilemmas become more intense.

In the first half of the 20th century schizophrenia was considered to be a hereditary defect, and sufferers were subject to eugenics in many countries.

Gene Already Suspected The hereditary defect affects a gene known as p53.

When organisms engage in sexual reproduction with their close relatives, the offspring tend to be weak, have hereditary defects, and reproduce poorly.

From 1934 through 1945, the courts ordered surgery for the sterilization of 400,000 persons with hereditary defects such as mental retardation, schizophrenia, and epilepsy.

They also get Elbow dysplasia, and cystinuria (a hereditary defect that forms calculi stones in the bladder).

(In Wilson's disease, a hereditary defect that causes the body to retain copper, some of the symptoms resemble accelerated senescence.)

The risk of developing cancer and hereditary defects from exposure to ionising radiation, which increases slightly for young people, is controlled by setting statutory annual dose limits.

The American exhibit was sponsored by the American Breeders' Association and demonstrated the incidence of hereditary defects in human pedigrees.

The new movement also advocated laws banning marriage between people of different ethnic groups and the use of medical procedures to prevent those with "hereditary defects" from having children.

As the surviving mill dogs grow older, they are more prone to developing respiratory ailments and pneumonia, as well as hereditary defects such as hip dysplasia.

Rare hereditary defects of renal salt transporters, such as Bartter syndrome or Gitelman syndrome, can cause hypokalemia, in a manner similar to that of diuretics.

This eventually results in similar cardiac deformities observed in dilated cardiomyopathy caused by hereditary defects in dystrophin in DMD patients.

These two types, along with Gilbert's syndrome, Dubin-Johnson syndrome, and Rotor syndrome, make up the five known hereditary defects in bilirubin metabolism.

Rare hereditary defects of muscular ion channels and transporters that cause hypokalemic periodic paralysis can precipitate occasional attacks of severe hypokalemia and muscle weakness.