GENE LINKED ABNORMALITIES

• Cystic Fibrosis


  Overproduction of mucus in the lungs and digestive tract
• Cystic Fibrosis


  • Physical Therapy
• Diabetes


  Does not produce enough insulin
• Diabetes


  • Insulin
• Hemophilia


  Delayed blood clotting
• Hemophilia


  • Blood transfusions
• Huntington's


  CNS deteriorates producing problem in muscles and mental decline
• Huntington's


  • No treatment
• Phenylketonuria


  Build up of Phenylalanine in the body
• Phenylketonuria


  • Special Diet
• Sickle-Cell Anemia


  Limits body oxygen supply
• Sickle-Cell Anemia


  • Penicillin, Antibiotics, Pain Reliever
• Spina Bifida


  Incompletely closed spinal canal
• Spina Bifida


  • Surgery
• Tay-Sachs Disease


  Accumulation of lipids in the NS
• Tay-Sachs Disease


  • Medication, Special Diet
• Anencephaly


  Absence of brain tissue
• Anencephaly


  • No treatment
• Polycystic Kidney Disease


  Enlarged Kidneys
• Polycystic Kidney Disease


  • Kidney Transplant
• Alpha antitrypsin Deficiency


  Cirrhosis of the liver in early infancy
• Alpha antitrypsin Deficiency


  • No treatment
• Alpha Thalassemia


  Severe Anemia; nearly all die soon after birth
• Alpha Thalassemia


  • Frequent Blood Transfusion
• Beta Thalassemia


  Severe Anemia; fatal in adolescence or Young adulthood
• Beta Thalassemia


  • Blood Transfusions (Cooley's Anemia)
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy


  Males with muscle weakness, minor mental retardation
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy


  • No treatment