Title: Hereditary Diseases List - Health Hearty
Headings: Hereditary Diseases List
Hereditary Diseases List
List of Hereditary Diseases
Autosomal Dominant Diseases
Autosomal Recessive Diseases
Gender Linked Diseases
Polygenic Disorders
A Few Other Genetic Disorders
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Content: Hereditary Diseases List - Health Hearty
Hereditary Diseases List
The hereditary diseases list is an endless one. However in this article, you can find a few genetic disease examples. Hereditary diseases, also known as inherited diseases or genetic disorders, are diseases that are passed on from one generation to another through defective genes. These diseases are transmitted in the same family. In some cases, one generation of the family may only be the carrier of the defective gene and the next generation may get affected by the disease. The chromosomes in humans are responsible for passing the traits from the parent to the offspring. There are thousands of genes on the pair of chromosomes, X and Y, and each gene carries a trait. Usually genes carry normal traits but sometimes due to reasons unknown, the genes get altered resulting in a ‘mutant’ gene. The offspring inherits a copy of gene from each parent and if either one or both the copies of gene are mutated, then the offspring is at a risk of getting an inherited disease. Most of the time, parents are unaware that they are suffering from a particular disease and have passed on the defective gene to the child unless the child is afflicted.