Related Diseases and Traits
The following diseases and traits are related to genes located on chromosome 2:
- 2p15-16.1 microdeletion syndrome
- Autism
- Alport syndrome
- Alström syndrome
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, type 2
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
- Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, classical type
- Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, vascular type
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
- Harlequin type ichthyosis
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemochromatosis, type 4
- Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
- Infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis
- Juvenile primary lateral sclerosis
- Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency
- Maturity onset diabetes of the young type 6
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency
- Nonsyndromic deafness
- Nonsyndromic deafness, autosomal recessive
- Primary hyperoxaluria
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Sitosterolemia (knockout of either ABCG5 or ABCG8)
- Sensenbrenner syndrome
- Synesthesia
- Waardenburg syndrome
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