mendelian disorder

mendelian disorder
a genetic disease, showing a mendelian pattern of inheritance, and caused by a single mutation in the structure of DNA, which causes a single basic defect that has some pathological consequence or consequences. Called also monogenic or single-gene d. See also inborn error of metabolism, under error.

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