Allelic Disease
With Allelic disorders are in the genetics various diseases referred to by different mutations on the same gene caused. It is based on various forms of expression ( alleles ) of the respective gene. Often these allele variants do not lead to the clinical picture of different diseases, but present themselves as a single disease, as a monogenic disease , one then speaks of 'allelic heterogeneity'.
Allelopathy , a branch of chemical ecology, should not be confused
Examples of allelic diseases are myotilinopathies and achondroplasia / hypochondroplasia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry to allelic disease in Flexikon , a wiki company DocCheck
- ↑ Ch. P. Schaar, J. Zschocke: "Basiswissen Humangenetik", Springer-Verlag, 2nd edition, 2013, eBook- ISBN 978-3-642-28907-1
