examples of autosomal disorders
Last reviewed 01/2018
The most common autosomal disorders are:
disorder type - incidence/1000 births
- dominant otosclerosis dominant - 3
- familial hypercholesterolaemia dominant - 2
- adult polycystic kidney disease dominant - 1
- cystic fibrosis recessive - 0.5
- recessive mental retardation recessive - 0.5
- multiple exostoses dominant - 0.5
- Huntington's disease dominant - 0.5
- neurofibromatosis dominant - 0.4
congenital adrenal hyperplasia
mental retardation (term that has been replaced by intellectual developmental disorder)
adult polycystic kidney disease