autosomal recessive disease
- noun
- /ˌɔːtəˈsoʊməl rɪˈsɛsɪv dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad autosómica recesiva
- Both parents must be carriers for a child to inherit an autosomal recessive disease.
Examples
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Cystic fibrosis is a classic example of an autosomal recessive disease affecting the lungs and digestive system.
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Genetic counseling can help families understand the risk of passing on an autosomal recessive disease.
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Cystic fibrosis is an example of an autosomal recessive disease.
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Many autosomal recessive diseases are inherited from both parents.
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Cystic fibrosis is a well-known autosomal recessive disease that affects both the lungs and digestive system.
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If both parents are carriers, their child has a chance of developing an autosomal recessive disease.
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Many couples seek genetic counseling to understand their risk of having a child with an autosomal recessive disease.
Synonyms
A genetic condition caused when a child gets two faulty copies of the same gene on a non-sex chromosome
How Sex-Linked
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Surface Forms
Morphology
autosomal + recessive + disease
This is a fully compositional technical term: 'autosomal' specifies non-sex chromosomes and 'recessive' specifies the inheritance pattern, so together with 'disease' it denotes a disease caused by a recessive gene on an autosome (i.e., manifesting when the recessive allele is present in the required combination). The meaning follows straightforward adjective+noun composition used in scientific English and would be derivable by a learner who knows the constituent words and their definitions.
Etymology
Autosomal recessive disease comes from how genes work: autosomal means the gene is on a regular, 'non-sex chromosome', and recessive means the faulty gene is 'hidden' unless a person gets the same faulty copy from both parents. So the disease only appears when someone inherits two bad copies of the gene.
