News

DMD / BMD Muscular Diseases

Duchenne / Becker Muscular Dystrophy (DMD / BMD) which is characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, caused by mutations...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is clinically characterized by progressive muscle weakness depending upon the degeneration in the anterior horn cells...

Rett Syndrome

Rett Syndrome is an X-linked autosomal disease and clinical signs vary according to the gender. The disease may follow a...

Frajil X Sendrome

Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited mental retardation. Incidence frequency is 1/1200 in males and 1/2500...

Achondroplasia

Achondroplasia and Hypochondroplasia which are the most common reasons of hereditary dwarfism , caused by mutations in FGFR3 gene. The...

Hemokromatozis

Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) which is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait, is a common disease related to iron metabolism. Hereditary...

Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

AAT deficiency is one of the most common hereditary diseases. It reflects its symptoms with liver disease (elevated liver enzymes,...

Congenital Hearing Loss

A non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB1) is a congenital and autosomal recessive disease. It can also be defined as a non-progressive...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy Type 1 (CMT1) is an autosomal dominant demyelinating peripheral neuropathy characterized by distal muscle weakness and atrophy, along...

Smith-Lemli-Opitz (SLOS)

Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (SLOS) is a cholesterol metabolic disorder caused by deficiency of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) reductase enzyme. Patients show prenatal and...

"The most amazing thing about us is not just the protein-coding parts of our genomes but the vast regions of DNA that lie outside those parts."

James Watson