autosomal recessive disease

Noun

Meaning

a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

autosomal recessive defect

Hypernyms

genetic disorder genetic disease inherited disorder hereditary disease inherited disease congenital disease

Hyponyms

Niemann-Pick disease infantile amaurotic idiocy Sachs disease limb-girdle muscular dystrophy Tay-Sachs disease thrombasthenia

Close letter words and terms

autosomal dominant disorder autosomal dominant osteopetrosis autosomal recessive defect autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy autosomally autosome