Autosomal+Dominant+Genetic+Disorder

Link your page to this one if yours is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder.

Autosomal Dominant Disorders are genetic disorders which affect the autosomes. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 total chromosomes). Two of those chromosomes are the sex chromosomes (see sex-linked traits). The other 22 pairs are the autosomes.

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Dominant traits are those that are expressed when the individual organism has one or two dominant alleles for the given trait. If 'B' represents the dominant allele and 'b' represents the recessive allele, the individual can be homozygous(BB) dominant or heterozygous(Bb) to inherit the trait. The genotype 'bb' would result in the organism inheriting the recessive trait which is usually the normal or unaffected phenotype.