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Day 4, Lecture 2: Genetics V: Human Chromosome Abnormalities Flashcards

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Clinical Cytogenetics

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  • Study of the relationship of chromosomal alterations and genetic diseases in human beings
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Chromosomal abnormalities cause

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  • Pregnancy loss
  • Congenital malformations
  • Intellectual disabilities (Mental Retardation)
  • Play a role in the pathogenesis of malignancy
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How common are chromosome abnormalities

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  • about 1% of live births
  • about 50% of first trimester miscarriages
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Classification of cytogenetic mutations

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Numerical Chromosome Abnormalities

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What is the most common chromosome abnormality seen in live births?

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  • Trisomy 21
  • Incidence 1 out of every 691 live births
  • Can happen to women of all ages, races and economic levels
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Causes of Trisomy 21

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  • Caused by having 3 compies of chromsome 21
    • 95% is nonfamilial Trisomy 21
    • 3-4% is unbalanced translation
      • only 1% are familial unbalanced translocation
    • 1-2% is mosaicism with two cell lines- normal and trisomy 21
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Common Aneuploidy Conditions

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  • Autosomes
    • Trisomy 21
    • Trisomy 18
    • Trisomy 13
  • Sex Chromosomes
    • Monosomy X
    • Klinefelter Syndrome
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Clinical Features of Trisomy 21

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What is Mosaicism?

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  • The situation in which not all cells in an organism possess the same genotype. Mosaicism usually occurs as the result of postconceptional (acquired) changes.
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Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome)

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Trisomy 13 (Patau Syndrome)

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Monosmy X (Turner Syndrome)

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Klinefelter Syndrome (47, XXY)

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Do Chromosome aneuploidy conditions usually run in families?

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  • No, it is a sporadic event
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Structural Abnormailities

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What is an Isochromosome?

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One arm is duplicated forming two arms with a shared centromere

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Chromosomal Translocations

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Microdeletion Syndromes bridge the gap between

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  • Single gene and chromosomal syndromes
    • The deletion of a megabase or so is too small to be seen under the microscope, however, it may involve a dozen or more genes
    • FISH analysis and chromosome microarray are revealing increasing numbers of such submicroscopic chromosomal abnormalities
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Molecular pathology puts deletions/duplications into what three categories

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microdeletion syndromes, contiguous gene syndromes, and segmental aneuploidy are now generally referred to as

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  • Genome disorders
    • (note: Genome disorders have a complex phenotype (frequently includes mental retardation, developmental delay, and behavioral problems) due to alteration of gene dosage)
      • Haploinsufficiency
        • Deletion (majority of genome disorders)
        • Terminal deletion (telomeric)
        • Imprinting or UPD
      • Overexpression
        • Duplication (minority of genome disorders)
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Mechanism of genome disorders

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  • Usually less than 5Mb is involved in the deletion or duplication that leads to a genome disorder
  • Areas of high recombination are often flanked by unique low copy repeats
  • Due to the low copy repeats, the chromatids misalign during recombination in meiosis
  • This misalignment leads to non-homologous recombination and unequal crossing-over
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Can a child inherit a microdeletion syndrome from a parent?

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Yes

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Williams Syndrome

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Langer-Giedon Syndrome

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DiGeorge Syndrome

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Duplication 22q syndrome

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Prader-Willi Syndrome

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Angelman Syndrome

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Genetics of Prader-Willi/Angelman Sydrome

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1p36 Deletion Syndrome

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Cri-du-Chat Syndrome

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Wolf-Hirschorn Syndrome

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Smith-Magenis Syndrome

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Chromosome Analysis

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Karyotype

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Metacentric

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  • Centromere is central with arms being almost equal length
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Submetacentric

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Off-centered centromere with arms being different lengths

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Acrocentric

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Centromere is near one end

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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)

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  • Uses fluorescent probes that bind to only those parts of the chromosome indicated for study
  • Used to detect microdeletion syndrome, aneuploidy, unknown chromosome material seen on karyotype
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explain how FISH is able to show a deletion syndrome

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  • A chromosome reporter probe is able to show which chromosome you are looking for a deletion at
  • A critical region probe will attach if the genes are there and will not attach if they have been deleted (example in the picture)
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Chromosome Microarray analysis (aka Comparative genome hybridization (CGH))

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  • Genome-wide screening
  • used to measure the differences between two different DNA samples (control and test) in copy number, or dosage, of a particular DNA segment
  • Limitations:
    • Cannot detect balanced rearrangments
    • Cannot provide the physical location of copy-number variants of unkown clinical significance
    • Cannot detect low levels of mosaicism
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Specimen Types for Chromosome Analysis

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  • White blood cells in peripheral blood
    • preferred specimen type
  • Fibroblasts from skin biopsy
  • Solid tumor biopsy
  • Bone marrow
  • Fetal cell derived by
    • amniocytes from amniotic fluid
      • Collected via a procedure called amniocentesis
    • Chorionic villus cells
      • Collected via a procedure called chorionic villus sampling
    • Fetal blood
      • Collected via a procedure periumbilical blood sampling
    • Products of Conception
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Abbreviations used to describe chromosome and their abnormalities

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MCS (40 decks)

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