DNA MICROARRAY Flashcards
STUDY OF HEREDITY
GENETICS
It focuses primarily on the likelihood of _____________.
Genetics - developing cancer
tests find ______, not diseases.
genetics - mutations
STUDY OF GENES, HOW THEY INTERACT AND EXPRESSED AS A WHOLE
genomics
If genetics is the study of ______, genomics is the study of _____ and how they interact, how they are passed on from generation to generation, and how they are expressed as a whole.
heredity, genes
Genetics and genomics are _________ that focuses on cancer itself and can help determine:
profiling tools
- prognosis (how aggressive)
- prediction (what is likely the benefit)
It is an international scientific research project.
HUMAN GENOMICS PROJECT
HUMAN GENOMICS PROJECT
→ Determining the _______.
→ ldentifying and mapping all of the ______.
sequence of human DNA, human genes
HUMAN GENOMICS PROJECT
Key Findings:
There are ________ genes in a human
being
approximately 20,500
They are the basic physical and functional unit of heredity
GENES
They are a part of a DNA.
GENES
Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called _____
proteins
Each human cell contains ___ chromosomes, and each chromosome contains _____ genes (based on the findings of the Human Genomic Project)
46
20,500
2 TYPES OF GENES
Structural and Regulatory Genese
A gene that codes for any RNA or protein product other than a regulatory factor.
structural genes
Encode for proteins or RNA
structural genes
Encode for mRNAs, rRNAS, and tRNAS.
structural genes
Gene products have either structural or functional importance
structural genes
A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
regulatory genes
Encode for transcription factors or regulatory RNA
regulatory genes
Regulate the expression of structural genes
• Regulatory genes process the ________.
• Ensures that the appropriate genes are __________
regulatory genes
- turning on and off of the gene
- expressed at the proper time.
EXAMPLES FOR STRUCTURAL GENES
Lac Z,A,Y genes of lac operon, actin gene
EXAMPLES OF REGULATORY GENES
Lac I gene, CAP gene
WHOLE DNA GENE 2 PARTS
- Intron
2. Exon
portion of a gene that does not code for amino acids/ proteins
intron
- part of thw whole gene that are just intermissions
- They are just there for the whole DNA to have time in forming a final mature RNA.
intron
portion of a gene that will form a part of the final mature RNA produced by that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing.
Exons
occurs only in a particular type of cell or
tissue where only a subset of an organism’s DNA will be expressed as mRNAs at any given time.
gene expression
The gene expression is focused on the _________ (________) where the 20,500 genes are activated simultaneously, and these genes are only activated when they are needed.
Central Dogma of Life, DNA -> RNA -> protein
The unique pattern of gene expression for a given cell or tissue is referred to as its __________.
*each gene has a unique pattern
molecular signature
If gene __ is activated (after the gene expression), it
means the patient has cancer. (Indication of cancer)
gene B
Why is gene expression important in any
malignancy/disease?
The use of gene expression profiling and development of gene biomarkers/signatures for cancer allows for the diagnosis, progression and aggressiveness analyses, prognosis, and prediction of therapeutic treatment.
MAIN TYPES OF GENE EXPRESSION ASSAYS
- Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)
- Short Oligonucleotide Arrays SOA (Affymetrix)
- Long Oligonucleotide Arrays LOA (Agilent Inkjet)
- Fiber Optic Arrays FOA (Ilumina)
- cDNA Arrays (Brown/ Botstein)
It does not use the whole sequence of genes; it only
uses a small part of the gene.
Short Oligonucleotide Arrays (Affymetrix)
Father of Microarray Technology
Mark Schena