—Before receiving a kidney transplant, patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease often undergo a nephrectomy. But there hasn’t been clear guidance on who’s a good candidate ...

SINGAPORE - When former national bowler Carl de Vries was diagnosed with kidney disease and needed a transplant, his brother ...

Researchers have found in a new research that higher dietary niacin intake was associated with lower all-cause mortality risk ...

An example of an autosomal recessive condition is cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis close cystic fibrosisA disorder that mainly affects the lungs, pancreas, liver, and intestine. The main symptom ...

Alkaptonuria is characterised by a black urine discolouration that has no cure Learn all about its causes symptoms diagnosis ...

Mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome (MVAS) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by mosaic aneuploidy. Its clinical manifestations include growth and developmental delay, congenital ...

What can Gregor Mendel’s pea plants tell us about human disease? Single gene disorders, like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, actually follow Mendelian inheritance patterns.

Chenodiol -- a naturally occurring human bile acid also known as chenodeoxycholic acid -- is the first FDA-approved drug indicated for the rare lipid storage disease and autosomal recessive ...

But they may be surprised to learn that they are a carrier for an autosomal disorder. “The consequences of having an affected pregnancy are life-changing,” says Dagan Wells, who directs Oxford ...