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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and
There are over 250 recognized sex-linked diseases, affecting every organ
system. Of these, 95% affect males, (Emery, 1968). Despite these many sex-
linked diseases, at present prenatal diagnosis can specifically be made in fe ....
Middle of essay ....r hands, to prevent
them from mutilating themselves.
Another Affected children with Menkes steely-hair syndrome have hair
that feels similar to steel wool; in addition, they are retarded. The basic
defect in this condition concerns the way the body handles copper.
Only a few of these sex-linked disorders can now be diagnosed in the
fetus, (Stein, 1994). At the present time, the only recourse parents have in
the case of sex-linked diseases that are not prenatally diagnosable is to
determine t.... |
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