Article
Genetics 101 for cardiologists: rare genetic variants and monogenic cardiovascular disease.
The Canadian journal of cardiology - 1 Jan 2013
Farhan Sali M K, Hegele Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Monogenic diseases have a distinctive familial inheritance that follows Mendel's laws, showing patterns like dominant, recessive, or X-linked. There are > 7000 monogenic diseases curated in databases, and together they account for up to 10% of all illnesses encountered in the emergency room or clinic. Despite the rarity of individual monogenic conditions, mapping their causative genes and mutations is important...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
