"notPythias"
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> On 2007-08-14, Flying Fuck < @ > wrote:
>> do you actually think that an albino phenotype can only have albino
>> children?
>
> FF, it's unfortunate that you chose that particular example, because
> you're making good points elsewhere. Unfortunately, albinism is a
> recessive disorder, so albino-phenotype parents really can only have
> albino children.
>
> You are right in general, though. It is entirely possible for
> children
> to have traits that were visible in their parents. When people say
> that
> something has ``skipped a generation,'' that's what they mean.
>
> Both hair and eye color are polygenic (controlled by more than one
> gene), so they cannot be described with simple dominant-recessive
> models, but---
>
> *it is absolutely established that dark-haired people can have blond
> children.*
>
> -nP
And there are unwanted maladies that can be inherited also. I doubt
that these maladies were inherited from the original model but are the
result of mutations.
You say mutations don't occur? Not, for example, according the flu and
HIV viruses.
Some are [Partial List of those beginning with "A"]
Disorder
Mutation
Chromosome
A-T
see ataxia-telangiectasia
AAT
see alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Absence of vas deferens
see congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens
Absent vasa
see congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens
aceruloplasminemia
ACG2
see achondrogenesis type II
ACH
see achondroplasia
Achondrogenesis type II
achondroplasia
substitution
Acid beta-glucosidase deficiency
see Gaucher disease type 1
Acrocephalosyndactyly (Apert)
see Apert syndrome
acrocephalosyndactyly, type V
see Pfeiffer syndrome
Acrocephaly
see Apert syndrome
Acute cerebral Gaucher's disease
see Gaucher disease type 2
acute intermittent porphyria
ACY2 deficiency
see Canavan disease
AD
Adelaide-type craniosynostosis
see Muenke syndrome
Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
see familial adenomatous polyposis
Adenomatous Polyposis of the Colon
see familial adenomatous polyposis
ADP
see ALA dehydratase deficiency
adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency
Adrenal gland disorders
see 21-hydroxylase deficiency
Adrenogenital syndrome
see 21-hydroxylase deficiency
Adrenoleukodystrophy
AIP
see acute intermittent porphyria
AIS
see androgen insensitivity syndrome
AKU
see alkaptonuria
ALA dehydratase porphyria
see ALA dehydratase deficiency
ALA-D porphyria
see ALA dehydratase deficiency
ALA dehydratase deficiency
Alcaptonuria
see alkaptonuria
Alexander disease
alkaptonuria
Alkaptonuric ochronosis
see alkaptonuria
alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor
see alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
alpha-1 related emphysema
see alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Alpha-galactosidase A deficiency
see Fabry disease
P
ALS
see amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Alstrom syndrome
ALX
see Alexander disease
Alzheimer disease
Alzheimer's disease
see Alzheimer disease
Amelogenesis Imperfecta
see Amelogenesis imperfecta
Amino levulinic acid dehydratase deficiency
see ALA dehydratase deficiency
Aminoacylase 2 deficiency
see Canavan disease
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Anderson-Fabry disease
see Fabry disease
P
androgen insensitivity syndrome
Anemia
Anemia, hereditary sideroblastic
see X-linked sideroblastic anemia
X
Anemia, sex-linked hypochromic sideroblastic
see X-linked sideroblastic anemia
X
Anemia, splenic, familial
see Gaucher disease
Angelman syndrome
Angiokeratoma Corporis Diffusum
see Fabry's disease
P
Angiokeratoma diffuse
see Fabry's disease
Angiomatosis retinae
see von Hippel-Lindau disease
ANH1
see X-linked sideroblastic anemia
X
APC resistance, Leiden type
see factor V Leiden thrombophilia
Apert syndrome
AR deficiency
see androgen insensitivity syndrome
AR-CMT2
see Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2
Arachnodactyly
see Marfan syndrome
ARNSHL
see Nonsyndromic deafness#autosomal recessive
Arthro-ophthalmopathy, hereditary progressive
see Stickler syndrome#COL2A1
Arthrochalasis multiplex congenita
see Ehlers-Danlos syndrome#arthrochalasia type
AS
see Angelman syndrome
Asp deficiency
see Canavan disease
Aspa deficiency
see Canavan disease
Aspartoacylase deficiency
see Canavan disease
ataxia-telangiectasia
Autism-Dementia-Ataxia-Loss of Purposeful Hand Use syndrome
see Rett syndrome
autosomal dominant juvenile ALS
see amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, type 4
Autosomal dominant opitz G/BBB syndrome
see deletion syndrome
D
22q
See
/wiki/Category:Genetic_disorders
for a longer list.