Wilson's Disease : Causes

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Wilson's disease is a rare inherited disorder. If both parents carry an abnormal gene for Wilson's disease, there is a 25% chance in each pregnancy that the child will have the disorder (i.e., it is an autosomal recessive disease. Wilson's disease...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 11, 2006
Wilson disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Autosomal recessive refers to the pattern of inheritance in which each parent carries a gene for the disease on one of his or her chromosome pairs. When each parent passes on the chromo...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Wilson disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Autosomal recessive refers to the pattern of inheritance in which each parent carries a gene for the disease on one of his or her chromosome pairs. When each parent passes on the chromo...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Wilson disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Autosomal recessive refers to the pattern of inheritance where each parent carries a gene for the disease on one of his or her chromosome pairs. When each parent passes on the chromosom...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
While the diagnosis of WD may be suspected on clinical grounds, it can only be confirmed using laboratory tests. An easily detectable physical sign is the presence of Kayser-Fleisher rings in the eye, which are bluish rings around the iris, caused...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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