Hereditary refers to traits or disorders that can be passed from parents to their offspring. If a disorder is hereditary, it means that there is a significant chance that the children of affected parents will also inherit the disorder.
4 Others have confirmed the strong association of midline clefting in up to 80% of Stickler syndrome patients.46 ,48,75,76 Shreiner et al?1 go further, advocating radiological examination for all Pierre-Robin patients to exclude Stickler syndrome. Whether this is a dependable means of screening...