Purchase Solution

Inheritance of dibetes mellitus

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Hundreds of human diseases are characterized by a genetic component, such as familial breast cancer. These diseases may run in your family and can currently be tested for. Prepare a 200-word report for your own family members about the current state of knowledge on any such diseases and the tests available. Describe the disease, and indicate how much of the severity of symptoms is due to environmental influences like diet and how much to genetic mutations. If a DNA test is available, indicate whether you would like to know the results of the test, and if the test can accurately predict who will get the disease.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Research in molecular biology has unraveled the genetic contribution in polygenic inheritance of diabetes mellitus. This problem discusses that further.

Solution Preview

Problem: Hundreds of human diseases are characterized by a genetic component, such as familial breast cancer. These diseases may run in your family and can currently be tested for. Prepare a 200-word report for your own family members about the current state of knowledge on any such diseases and the tests available. Describe the disease, and indicate how much of the severity of symptoms is due to environmental influences like diet and how much to genetic mutations. If a DNA test is available, indicate whether you would like to know the ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Vision and Oculomotor Control

This quiz will test the student's knowledge of the neural underpinnings of the visual system and its central pathways.

How Much Do You Know About Genetic Inheritance?

Most of us studied the basics of dominant and recessive genes at some point. However, genetics are much more complicated than this. How far beyond the basics does your knowledge go?

Light and Sight Vocabulary

This quiz introduces basic definitions of vocabulary related to light and how human eyes. This information is important for an understanding of sight.

Hemophilia: Fact or Fiction

Do you know the truth about hemophilia? Test your knowledge here.

Do You Know Your Macromolecules?

This quiz will assess your knowledge of the macromolecules that are important to living things.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Concerns and Causes of Hypoglycemia in Diabetes Mellitus

    Concerns and Causes of Hypoglycemia in Diabetes Mellitus are examined.

  • Diabetes Mellitus

    383359 Diabetes Mellitus What are the similarities and differences between starvation and diabetes mellitus? The effects of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus are very similar to those of starvation.

  • Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Academics

    611713 Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Academics topic: insulin dependent diabetes mellitus 1. Name at least three physical and academic difficulties associated with the chosen impairment or disease 2.

  • Comparison/contrast of diabetes mellitus types I and II

    • Differences between Diabetes Mellitus Type I and Type II Feature Type 1 Type 2 Age of onset Usually < 40 yo Usually > 40 yo Insulin Replacement Always Not in early stages Involves Obesity No Yes Autoimmune Destruction of B Cells in Pancreatic

  • Insulin Use Advantages and Disadvantages for Diabetics

    Disturbances in insulin level within the body leads to a clinical condition diabetes mellitus [hyperglycemia]. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus use insulin [as suncutaneous injection] for survival as they are deficient in that hormone.

  • Chronic Disease

    This type of diabetes goes away after the baby is born. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dc-ma/diabete/index_e.html Type 1 diabetes mellitus used to be called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, or juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus, because it usually begins

  • Inheritance property & impact on software testing techniques

    Different uses focus on different properties, such as the external behavior of objects, internal structure of the object, structure of the inheritance hierarchy, or software engineering properties of inheritance.

  • Java inheritance

    B: Explain why the inheritance concept is useful for a programmer. Answer - Inheritance is one of the object-oriented concepts of JAVA where a JAVA class can use all the properties and members of another JAVA class.

  • Inheritance tax

    id=740556 This solution is comprised of a detailed explanation to answer the request of the assignment of more than 100 words of text with references.

View More Related Solutions