Introduction: Chromosome conditions

Chromosome conditions: Chromosome diseases are genetic diseases where a large part of the genetic code has been disrupted. Chromosomes are long sequences of DNA that contain hundreds or thousands of genes. Every person has 2 copies of each of the 23 chromosomes, called chromosomes 1..22 (or "autosomes") and the 23rd is the sex chromosome, which is either X and Y. Men are XY and women are XX in the 23rd chromosome pair.

The most common type of chromosomal condition is a trisomy condition involving a triplet of chromosomes. Trisomy conditions are chromosome conditions where the disease results from an extra chromosome. Normal humans have two copies of the non-sex chromosomes 1..22, and disease arises if a fetus wrongly gets a third copy of any of these chromosomes.

See also articles Introduction to Genetics, Introduction to Chromosome Diseases, and Introduction to Genetic Diseases.

Conditions list: The list of conditions in the Chromosome conditions group includes:

• Trisomy conditions
  • Down Syndrome
  • Edwards Syndrome
  • Patau syndrome
  • Trisomy 22
  • Cri-du-chat syndrome
• Chromosome deletion syndromes
• Autosomal chromosome conditions
• Sex chromosome conditions
• Imprinted chromosome conditions
• Angelman syndrome
• DiGeorge's syndrome
• Prader-Willi syndrome
• Velocardiofacial syndrome

Statistics and Chromosome conditions: Various sources and calculations are available in statistics about Chromosome conditions, and you can also research other medical statistics in our statistics center.

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