Definition of Genetic disease

1. Noun. A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically.


Medical Definition of Genetic disease

1. A disease, such as cystic fibrosis, that has its origin in changes to the genetic material, DNA. Usually refers to diseases that are inherited in a Mendelian fashion, although noninherited forms of cancer also result from DNA mutation. (07 May 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genetic Disease

genetic block
genetic burden
genetic carrier
genetic code
genetic colonisation
genetic complement
genetic complementation
genetic complementation test
genetic compound
genetic constitution
genetic counseling
genetic death
genetic defect
genetic determinant
genetic disease (current term)
genetic disequilibrium
genetic disorder
genetic distance
genetic diversity
genetic dominance
genetic drift
genetic drifts
genetic endowment
genetic engineer
genetic engineering
genetic engineering technologies
genetic engineers
genetic equilibrium
genetic fallacy

Literary usage of Genetic disease

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genetic Information and Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor edited by James M. Jeffords (2001)
"A couple loses their teen-age daughter to a genetic disease and finds out ... A small business owner's child has a rare genetic disease which responds to a ..."

2. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff (1998)
"This may take the form of imitating a known human genetic disease, ... Genetic diseases Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease of humans associated with a ..."

3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"If I were to summarize that revolution in a single sentence, that sentence would be "cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease." That's the long and the ..."

4. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"These general classes of genetic disease are emphasized: hereditary metabolic diseases, including inborn errors of amino acid, organic acid, ..."

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