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What are some recessive genetic disorders?


Other than Cystic fibrosis, Sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease.

there are so many of them, usually they are seious diseases!!

# Alport syndrome: a form of nephritis, a kidney disease
# Canavan: disease of the brain
# Congenital neutropenia: a blood condition
# Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a connective tissue disease
# Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: a birth defect
# Familial Mediterranean fever with attacks of fever and pain
# Fanconi anemia: a progressive blood disorder with a high risk of leukemia
# Gaucher disease: (a common genetic disease of Jews
# Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS): a series of carbohydrate storage disorders
# Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
# Phenylketonuria (PKU): a disease for which newborns are tested

further explaination about autosomal recessive disorders here is a link

If you run a search for "recessive genetic disorders" you will find many sources of information that will answer your question.

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