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Vertical transmission, also known as Mother-to-child transmission refers to transmission
Transmission (medicine)

In medicine, transmission is the passing of a disease from an infected individual or group to a previously uninfected individual or group.The microorganisms that cause disease may be transmitted from one person to another by one or more of the following means:...
 of an infection
Infection

An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host resources to multiply ....
, such as HIV
HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C
Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a Blood-borne disease infectious disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus , affecting the liver. The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can cause inflammation of the liver ....
, from mother to child during the perinatal
Perinatal

Perinatal defines the period occurring around the time of childbirth .The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks of gestation , and ends seven completed days after birth....
 period, the period immediately before and after birth. It is a term also used in population genetics
Population genetics

Population genetics is the study of the allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow....
 to describe inheritance of an allele or condition from either the father or mother.

Vertical transmission tends to evolve benign symbiosis
Symbiosis

The term symbiosis commonly describes close and often long-term interactions between different biological species. The term was first used in 1879 by the Germany mycology Heinrich Anton de Bary, who defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms"....
. It is therefore a critical concept for evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine

Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolution to understanding health and disease. It provides a complementary scientific approach to the present Mechanism_ that dominate medical science, and particularly modern medical education....
.

In Dual Inheritance Theory
Dual inheritance theory

Dual Inheritance Theory , also known as Gene-Culture Coevolution, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution....
, vertical transmission refers to the passing of cultural traits from parents to children.








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Vertical transmission, also known as Mother-to-child transmission refers to transmission
Transmission (medicine)

In medicine, transmission is the passing of a disease from an infected individual or group to a previously uninfected individual or group.The microorganisms that cause disease may be transmitted from one person to another by one or more of the following means:...
 of an infection
Infection

An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host resources to multiply ....
, such as HIV
HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C
Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a Blood-borne disease infectious disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus , affecting the liver. The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can cause inflammation of the liver ....
, from mother to child during the perinatal
Perinatal

Perinatal defines the period occurring around the time of childbirth .The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks of gestation , and ends seven completed days after birth....
 period, the period immediately before and after birth. It is a term also used in population genetics
Population genetics

Population genetics is the study of the allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow....
 to describe inheritance of an allele or condition from either the father or mother.

Vertical transmission tends to evolve benign symbiosis
Symbiosis

The term symbiosis commonly describes close and often long-term interactions between different biological species. The term was first used in 1879 by the Germany mycology Heinrich Anton de Bary, who defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms"....
. It is therefore a critical concept for evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine

Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolution to understanding health and disease. It provides a complementary scientific approach to the present Mechanism_ that dominate medical science, and particularly modern medical education....
.

In Dual Inheritance Theory
Dual inheritance theory

Dual Inheritance Theory , also known as Gene-Culture Coevolution, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution....
, vertical transmission refers to the passing of cultural traits from parents to children.

See also


  • Horizontal transmission
    Horizontal transmission

    Horizontal transmission is the transmission of a bacterial, fungal, or viral infection between members of the same species that are not in a parent-child relationship....