Genomic Medicine
Thalassemia
Thalassemia Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that affects your body’s ability to produce haemoglobin. Individuals with thalassemia present with severe anemia and enlargement of liver and spleen needing medical treatment in the first two years of life. It is a common genetic disorder and in India about 10,000 -20,000 children are born every year
Frequently Asked Questions: Clinical Genetics
Frequently Asked Questions: Clinical Genetics What are genetic diseases? Genetic diseases are caused due to change in DNA sequence apart from normal. It may be due to change in one gene (single gene disorders), multiple genes (multigenic disorders), interaction between genes and environment (multifactorial diseases), or change in structure or number of chromosomes. With progress