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• Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common monogenic disease and was chosen for gene-targeting studies by Smithies and his co-workers [53, 54]. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
• Recent advances in genetics such as the identification of the responsible genes for several forms of Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY), now referred to as monogenic diabetes, have established precedents linking specific drug therapies to defined subtypes of diabetes patients," said Robert Smith, MD, of Brown University in Providence, R.I. and co-author of the statement. Newswise: Latest News
• The inheritance of apospory has been investigated in a considerable number of plant species and, remarkably, is always inherited as a monogenic dominant trait.
• Classical genetics of human disease deals with monogenic disorders in which a single mutation in a single gene is causatively related to the phenotype.
• We didn't need the gene sequence to find most monogenic disorders.
• Monogenic and polygenic inheritance of adult resistance under controlled and field conditions has been reported in the literature.
• Monogenic control was also found for spiny versus spineless, with the spiny trait being completely or partially dominant.
• Another difficulty when working with agronomically relevant traits is that many quantitative traits are not inherited in a monogenic manner but are controlled by multiple genes.
• Prenatal tests for some of these single-gene maladies -- known as monogenic diseases -- are available today, but they require a needle to be inserted into the mother's womb and therefore carry a small risk of miscarriage. Prenatal Test Has Promise, Study Shows
• These so-called monogenic conditions — diseases like hemochromatosis (where the body absorbs too much iron) or Huntington's disease — are easy to research, because the associations are pretty much binary. 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics