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Definition of Monogenic disease
1. Noun. An inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes.
Specialized synonyms: Scid, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, Cf, Cystic Fibrosis, Fibrocystic Disease Of The Pancreas, Mucoviscidosis, Pancreatic Fibrosis, Gaucher's Disease, Huntington's Chorea, Huntington's Disease, Dysostosis Multiplex, Gargoylism, Hurler's Disease, Hurler's Syndrome, Lipochondrodystrophy, Neurofibromatosis, Von Recklinghausen's Disease, Crescent-cell Anaemia, Crescent-cell Anemia, Drepanocytic Anaemia, Drepanocytic Anemia, Sickle-cell Anaemia, Sickle-cell Anemia, Sickle-cell Disease, Infantile Amaurotic Idiocy, Sachs Disease, Tay-sachs, Tay-sachs Disease, Mediterranean Anaemia, Mediterranean Anemia, Thalassaemia, Thalassemia, Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Generic synonyms: Congenital Disease, Genetic Abnormality, Genetic Defect, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disorder, Hereditary Condition, Hereditary Disease, Inherited Disease, Inherited Disorder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monogenic Disease
Literary usage of Monogenic disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature by Lyla M. Hernandez, Dan G. Blazer (2006)
"Phenotype-genotype relationships in monogenic disease: Lessons from the thalassaemias.
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2, 245-255. Weiss, SM (1987). ..."
2. Game Theory, Optimal Stopping, Probability and Statistics: Papers in Honor by Thomas Shelburne Ferguson, F. Thomas Bruss, Lucien Marie Le Cam (2000)
"... an individual's phenotype, ie, if> = 1 or 0 according as the individual is
affected or not, so K = Eip. We consider only a monogenic disease and let G ..."
3. Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature by Lyla M. Hernandez, Dan G. Blazer (2006)
"Phenotype-genotype relationships in monogenic disease: Lessons from the thalassaemias.
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2, 245-255. Weiss, SM (1987). ..."
4. Game Theory, Optimal Stopping, Probability and Statistics: Papers in Honor by Thomas Shelburne Ferguson, F. Thomas Bruss, Lucien Marie Le Cam (2000)
"... an individual's phenotype, ie, if> = 1 or 0 according as the individual is
affected or not, so K = Eip. We consider only a monogenic disease and let G ..."
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