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Genetic Diseases, Inborn

"Genetic Diseases, Inborn" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Diseases that are caused by genetic mutations present during embryo or fetal development, although they may be observed later in life. The mutations may be inherited from a parent's genome or they may be acquired in utero.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Genetic Diseases, Inborn" by people in this website by year, and whether "Genetic Diseases, Inborn" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 72 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 1998 and 2008
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