• Question: Is there a name for the gene that makes the children ill?

    Asked by x.sophie.0x to Gaia on 9 Mar 2016.
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      Gaia Andreoletti answered on 9 Mar 2016:


      Hi Sophie!

      Within our DNA we have more than 20,000 genes and there is a unique name for each one of them. It could be that not a single mutation within a gene but a combination of mutations within multiple genes might cause disease in a child; it all depends on the type of disease taken into account.

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