Carolyn Webb. Players of St Therese's under-15 team are upset that they have to play against a 13-year-old boy who stands 185 centimetres tall. MEMBERS of a junior netball club have slammed a VCAT decision to allow a 185-centimetre tall, 13-year-old boy interim permission to play in an all-girls' competition.
For example, sickle cell anemia is one common genetic disorder that mainly affects individuals of African or Mediterranean descent. So whether you fear a genetic condition due to your ethnicityâor if a certain genetic disease is common throughout your ancestry; here are the ten most common DNA mutation disordersâ¦.
Genetic traits can be passed through families in several distinct patterns. The most common patterns are the following: 1  Dominant genetic diseases are caused by a mutation in one copy of a gene.2  If a parent has a dominant genetic disease, then each of that personâs children has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. Dominant diseases can also occur spontaneously; this happens when a random mutation in one gene occurs at conception. 2  Examples of dominant genetic diseases include Achondroplasia and Huntington disease. 3  For some dominant genetic diseases, there may be specific DNA tests available. 4  Recessive genetic diseases.