Use this website only for this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim?term=genetic%20

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim?term=genetic%20diseases In full sentence form, tell me the following information about POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY : autosomal or sex-linked, dominant or recessive, when it was first discovered to be a genetic disease, the exact location (for example 4p18) and at least two specific symptoms of the disease. Remember to put your full URL at the top or bottom of you assignment, and if you use all the information from that site, state: “The information from this paper comes from this URL.”

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Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an autosomal dominant disorder that arises from heterozygous mutations in the PKD1 gene (601313) on chromosome 16p13.3. The genetic nature of PKD was first suggested in 1971

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