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monogenic disorder ThesaurusNoun | 1. | monogenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genesmonogenic diseaseSCID, severe combined immunodeficiency, severe combined immunodeficiency disease - a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of lifecongenital disease, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, genetic disease, genetic disorder, hereditary condition, hereditary disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder - a disease or disorder that is inherited geneticallycystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, mucoviscidosis, pancreatic fibrosis, CF - the most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is knownGaucher's disease - a rare chronic disorder of lipid metabolism of genetic originHuntington's chorea, Huntington's disease - hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementiadysostosis multiplex, gargoylism, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy - hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardationneurofibromatosis, von Recklinghausen's disease - autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalitiescrescent-cell anaemia, crescent-cell anemia, drepanocytic anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease - a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shapeinfantile amaurotic idiocy, Sachs disease, Tay-Sachs, Tay-Sachs disease - a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhoodMediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia, thalassaemia, thalassemia - an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobinfamilial hypercholesterolemia - congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis | EncyclopediaSeedisordermonogenic disorder
monogenic disorder A disorder caused by mutation of a single gene—i.e., based on simple mendelian genetics.monogenic disorder
Synonyms for monogenic disordernoun an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genesSynonymsRelated Words- SCID
- severe combined immunodeficiency
- severe combined immunodeficiency disease
- congenital disease
- genetic abnormality
- genetic defect
- genetic disease
- genetic disorder
- hereditary condition
- hereditary disease
- inherited disease
- inherited disorder
- cystic fibrosis
- fibrocystic disease of the pancreas
- mucoviscidosis
- pancreatic fibrosis
- CF
- 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
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