DISEASES CAUSED BY HUMAN GENETIC DISORDERS
RH factor incompatibility - RH factor
ABO incompatibility - Incompatible Blood groups of donor and recipent
Albinism - Pigment melanin is not synthesised (gene mutation)
Phenylketonuria - Inborn error in metabolism of animo acid phenylalanine
Tay-Sach's disease - Severe brain and spinal cord damage
Sickle cell anaemia - Single mutation in a gene (sickle shaped RBC)
Haemophilia - Sex-linked disorder (blood does not clot)
Colour Blindness - Sex-linked disorder (inability to distinguish colours)
Down's syndrome - Extra chromosome 21 (trismy 21)
Klinefelter's syndrome - Extra X chromosome in males (trisomy)
Turner's syndrone - Missing X chromosome in females (monosomy)
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