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Which genetic disorders are most common and least common?
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Depends: on how strictly you define things. The big ones are: familial hyperlipidemia Cystic Fibrosis Thalassemia Muscular Dystrophies Down's Syndrome Fragile X Hemochromatosis Sickle Cell Disease Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency. There are many many diseases of which there are only a few in the whole world and there are probably a few we haven't seen yet.
Answered 6/1/2015
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