Medical Genetics

Medical Genetics is a book by Dr. Ian Young. This post has some notes from the book on diseases that involve genetic abnormalities.

Chromosome Abnormalities

Down syndrome: 47,XX,+21

Edwards syndrome: 46,XY,+18

Klinefelter syndrome: 47,XXY

Patau syndrome: 47,XX,+13

Turner syndrome: 45,X

XYY syndrome: 47,XYY

Microdeletion Syndromes

Angelman syndrome: 15q11-13

DiGeorge syndrome: 22q11

Prader-Willi syndrome: 15q11-q13

WAGR syndrome: 11p13

Williams syndrome: 7q11.2

Genes and Loci Involved in Diseases and Disorders

A1 brachydactyly: IHH

Achondroplasia: FGFR3

Acute lymphocytic leukemia: BCR-ABL

Adrenal failure: SF1

Adult polycystic kidney disease: PKD1

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma: PAX3

Alzheimer disease: APP, APOE, PS1, PS2

Androgen insensitivity: AR

Aniridia: PAX6

Apert syndrome: FGFR2

Basal cell nevus syndrome: PTCH

Beare-Stevenson syndrome: FGFR2

Bladder cancer: H-RAS

Breast cancer: BRCA1, BRCA2, ERBB2

Burkitt’s lymphoma: CMYC

Campomelic dysplasia: SOX9

Childhood leukemia: LMO2

Chronic granulomatous disease: CYBB

Chronic myeloid leukemia: BCR-ABL

Colorectal cancer: K-RAS, NF1, APC

Congenital glaucoma: CYP1B1

Congenital heart defects: NKX2-5

Congenital hypothyroidism: PAX8

Coronary artery disease: ACE

Craniosynostosis, Boston type: MSX2

Crouzon syndrome: FGFR2, FGFR3

Currarino syndrome: HLXB9

Cystic fibrosis: CFTR

Denys-Drash syndrome: WT1

Duchenne muscular dystrophy: DYS

EEC syndrome: TP63

Familial adenomatous polyposis: APC

Familial breast cancer: BRCA1, BRCA2

Female pseudohermaphroditism: SRY

Fragile X syndrome: FMR1

Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome: GLI3

Hand-foot-genital syndrome: HOXA

Hemochromatosis: C282Y

Hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer: MLH1, MSH2, MSH3, MSH6, PMS2

Hirschsprung disease: RET, GDNF, NTN, EDNRB, EDN3

Holoprosencephaly: SHH, GLI2

Huntington disease: IT15

Hypochondroplasia: FGFR3

Hypodontia: PAX9

Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis: SHOX

Leukemia: CYP2D6

Li-Fraumeni syndrome: TP53

Lung cancer: K-RAS

Male pseudohermaphroditism: SRY

Malignant hypothermia: RYR1

Marfan syndrome: FBN1

Maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 4: IDX1

Melanoma: NF1

Muenke syndrome: FGFR3

Multiple endocrine adenomatosis type 2: RET

Myeloid leukemia: N-RAS

Myotonic dystrophy: DMPK

Nail-patella syndrome: LMX1B

Neuroblastoma: NMYC, NF1

Neurofibromatosis type 1: NF1

Neurofibromatosis type 2: NF2

Neural tube defects: MTHFR

Ornithin transcarbamylase deficiency: OTC

Pallister-Hall syndrome: GLI3

Pancreatic cancer: K-RAS

Papillary thyroid cancer: RET

Parietal foramina: MSX2

Pfeiffer syndrome: FGFR1, FGFR2

Proteus syndrome: PTEN

Pseudocholinesterase deficiency: BCHE

Radioulnar synostosis: HOXA

Reiger syndrome: PITX2

Renal-coloboma syndrome: PAX2

Retinitis pigmentosa: ROM1

Retinoblastoma: RB1

Rett syndrome: MECP2

Schizophrenia: DTNBP1, NRG1

Synpolydactyly: HOXD

Thanatophoric dysplasia (type 1 and type 2): FGFR3

Thrombocytopenia: HOXA

Treatment related leukemia: CYP3A4

Tuberous sclerosis: TSC1, TSC2

Type 1 diabetes: IDDM1, IDDM2

Type 2 diabetes: MODY1, MODY2, MODY3, MODY4

Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome: VHL

Waardenburg syndrome type 1: PAX3

Waardenburg syndrome type 2: PAX3, SOX10

Waardenburg syndrome type 4: SOX10

Witkop syndrome: MSX1

X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency: IL2RG

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