autosomal
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- adjective
- /ˌɔːtəˈsoʊməl/
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autosomal
- Studies within families suggest that the poor response to APC is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
- autosomal dominant
- autosomal recessive
- autosomal disorder
Examples
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Approximately 60-80% of those with retinitis pigmentosa inherit it by an autosomal recessive transmission (Brilliant, 1999).
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Sickle cell disease is a lifelong autosomal recessive disorder.
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My daughter has a very rare autosomal disease that severely restricts her diet.
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And so that gives you a good clue that this is an autosomal dominant trait.
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However, achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder, and one would expect to see other children affected in the family.
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Moreover, it is often inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, making it one of the commonest inherited disorders.
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Hereditary PXE is a rare disorder that is autosomal recessive in nature.
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Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant disorder with high penetrance characterized by progressive chorea and dementia.
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Cherubism is a rare, benign, autosomal dominant inherited condition characterized by cystic proliferation of the mandible and maxilla in childhood.
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Sickle cell disease is a lifelong autosomal recessive disorder that affects blood cells.
Compounds
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A disease that happens when one copy of a gene on a non-sex chromosome changes
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A genetic disease from a changed gene on a non-sex chromosome where one bad copy causes illness
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A genetic condition caused when a child gets two faulty copies of the same gene on a non-sex chromosome
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A disease that appears when a child gets two copies of a faulty gene on a non-sex chromosome
How Sex-Linked
Surface Forms
Morphology
autosomal = autosome (semi-transparent) = auto + som + al
The word is a regular adjectival formation from the technical noun 'autosome', but the base term is specialized and not transparent to most learners.
Etymology
Autosomal comes from the Greek parts auto- 'self' and soma 'body'. So an autosomal gene is on a chromosome that is part of your 'body' rather than a sex chromosome, which is why autosomal traits can appear in both men and women.