The purpose of this assignment is to enrich your understanding of some of the different cellular organelles by investigating human diseases that can be traced to specific defects in certain organelles. The following list contains several examples of diseases associated with defective organelles. Cystinosis • Gaucher disease • Zellweger spectrum disorders • X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease • Barth syndrome • Leigh syndrome • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease • Sjogren's syndrome • Pick's disease • Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy • Heart-Hand syndrome • Hutchinson-Gifford progeria syndrome • Infantile autophagic vacuolar myopathy
,he assignment: Choose 2 diseases linked to specific organelles that you wish to write a short report on. They can either be from the above list or you can find another disease linked to a specific organelle that interests you. The only restriction is that you must choose 2 diseases.
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