Diseases and Disorders
The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 13:
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Heterochromia
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Maturity onset diabetes of the young type 4
- Nonsyndromic deafness
- Nonsyndromic deafness, autosomal dominant
- Nonsyndromic deafness, autosomal recessive
- Propionic acidemia
- Retinoblastoma
- Waardenburg syndrome
- Wilson's disease
- Patau syndrome
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