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Chediak Higashi Syndrome Learning Center
Causes could include:
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Mutation
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Chediak-Higashi is inherited, which means it is passed down through families. It is an autosomal recessive disease. This means that both parents must contribute a faulty gene for the child to show symptoms of the disease.
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Chediak-Higashi is an autosomal recessive disease, which requires both parents to be carriers of altered, or mutated, genes. CHS often occurs in families with a history of marrying close relatives. Based on genetic mapping that was first done in a...
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Chediak-Higashi is an autosomal recessive disease, which requires both parents to be carriers of altered, or mutated, genes. CHS often occurs in families with a history of marrying close relatives. Based on genetic mapping that was first done in a...
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In a strict sense, mutations are changes in genes not caused by genetic recombination. A change in the base sequence of DNA , for example, represents a mutational change. Spontaneous mutations are mutations that occur at a given frequency without ...
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