The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) aims to cure genetic disorders, notably Huntington's disease, by supporting basic biomedical research. In 1968...
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in 1993 by an international collaborative effort led by the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Research and support organizations began forming in the late...
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uncommon, and most patients with the hereditary form of haemochromatosis do not show any overt signs of disease nor do they have premature morbidity,...
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Germany Hôtel-Dieu de France, Lebanon Hereditary Disease Foundation, an American organization Human Development Foundation, Thailand Hungarian Defence Force...
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Nancy Wexler (category Huntington's disease)
formal education in biology." In 1968 her father started the Hereditary Disease Foundation, which introduced her to scientists such as geneticists and...
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Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation and The Hereditary Disease Foundation. Klein, alongside his friend Frank Gehry, helped the foundation to raise funds and...
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Angeles psychoanalyst who was responsible for the creation of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. He was born in San Francisco and moved to New York, where he...
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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), also known as Osler–Weber–Rendu disease and Osler–Weber–Rendu syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant genetic...
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Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of inherited diseases whose main feature is a progressive gait disorder. The disease presents with progressive...
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Disease Initiative' – was a sister organization allied to the Hereditary Disease Foundation, that focused on developing drugs to hit those targets. 'CHDI'...
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(1931–32) (Vitra Design Museum) Leslie Gehry Brenner Award of the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) "Emeco Designers". www.emeco.net. Retrieved 2022-10-08...
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Gaucher's disease or Gaucher disease (/ɡoʊˈʃeɪ/) (GD) is a genetic disorder in which glucocerebroside (a sphingolipid, also known as glucosylceramide)...
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Paul Patterson (neuroscientist) (category Huntington's disease)
organizations such as Autism Speaks, the McKnight Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Hereditary Disease Foundation, and private donors. He was committed to...
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6, 2008, Koons donated a private tour of his studio to the Hereditary Disease Foundation for auction on Charitybuzz.[citation needed] From his limited-edition...
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. There are three main categories of CJD disease: sporadic CJD, hereditary CJD, and acquired CJD, with variant CJD being in the acquired...
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Alport syndrome (redirect from Hereditary nephritis)
once also had the label hereditary nephritis, but this is misleading as there are many other causes of hereditary kidney disease and 'nephritis'. Alport...
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Hereditary coproporphyria (HCP) is a disorder of heme biosynthesis, classified as an acute hepatic porphyria. HCP is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme...
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Porphyria (redirect from Hereditary erythropoietic porphyria)
aminolevulinic acid dehydratase deficiency porphyria (ALAD) and hereditary coproporphyria (HCP). These diseases primarily affect the nervous system, resulting in episodic...
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Retrieved February 20, 2020. Hereditary Disease Foundation. "News from the Hereditary Disease Foundation" (PDF). Hereditary Disease Foundation Newsletter....
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Gehry Brenner Prize for Innovation in Science awarded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation (2018). "C. Frank Bennett, Ph.D." Ionis Pharmaceuticals. 29...
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Amyloidosis (redirect from Abercrombie's disease)
similarities among proteins known to form disease-associated amyloids. One third of amyloid disease is hereditary, in which case there is normally an early...
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endoscopy. Throughout the 1960s, other features of coeliac disease were elucidated. Its hereditary character was recognised in 1965. In 1966, dermatitis herpetiformis...
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polyneuropathy Anti-MAG peripheral neuropathy Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and its counterpart Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy Copper deficiency-associated...
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Sjögren syndrome (redirect from Sjogren's disease)
Sjögren's disease (SjD) (previously known as Sjögren syndrome or Sjögren's syndrome (SjS, SS)) is a long-term autoimmune disease that primarily affects...
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Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by recurrent episodes of intestinal inflammation, primarily manifesting as diarrhea...
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Spinocerebellar ataxia (category Rare diseases)
hereditary, progressive, degenerative, and often fatal. There is no known effective treatment or cure. SCA can affect anyone of any age. The disease is...
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Warburg reported on a Danish family that showed seven cases of a hereditary degenerative disease throughout seven generations. The first member of the family...
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g...
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Housman received a grant from the Hereditary Disease Foundation to search for the gene behind Huntington's disease using genetic markers, and embarked...
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Labradoodle (section Addison's disease)
labradoodles are "few and far between" and most are "crazy or have a hereditary problem". Australian breeder Wally Conron introduced the cross-breed to...
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