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What are the symptoms of alzheimer’s disease?

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Early: Memory problems
Middle: Troublesome behaviors
Late: Activities of daily living suffer

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What are examples of multifactorial disease?

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  1. Alzheimer disease
  2. Coronary Artery disease
  3. Diabetes Type I (childhood onset)
  4. Diabetes type II (adult onset)
  5. Hirschprung disease (here factors are all genes)
  6. Neural tube defects
  7. Schizophrenia
  8. Obesity
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What are the risk of having alzheimer’s?

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  1. If 1st degree relative has Alzheimer’s - 30% lifetime risk (3-4 times increase)
  2. Twin concordance rates: 30-80% for monozygotic; 10-40% for dizygotic
    Heritability (H) estimates (0.44 to 0.8)
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What is the rate of inheriting Alzheimer’s as a monogenic disease?

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1% unless autosomal domain
APP mutations (5%) (Most common = Val 717 Ile)
Presenilin-1 mutations (70%)
Presenilin-2 mutations (<5%)

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What is the rate of inheriting Alzheimer’s as a multifactorial disease?

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99%

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What is Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP)?

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Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a membrane protein that sits in the membrane and extends outward.

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What do secretases do?

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enzyme that cuts B-amyloid peptides into fragments

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What are b-amyloid fragments?

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β-amyloid fragments are “sticky”, forming the plaques seen in the AD brain.

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What is the function of Presenilin?

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The presenilin proteins are part of the γ-secretase complex, which snips fragments off amyloid precursor protein (APP), releasing β-amyloid peptide into the extracellular space where it form plaques.

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What is presenilin?

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subcomponents of gamma-secretase mutations in PSEN1/2 leads to a gain of toxic function

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Describe Presenilin mutation

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Biochemically = partial loss of the γ-secretase complex function, which affects several downstream signaling pathways.

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What are the other genes involved in multifactorial alzheimer’s?

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APO E4 (encoded by a gene on chromosome 19), and a major risk factor for multifactorial Alzheimer’s

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What are the environmental factors in alzheimer’s?

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Serious head injury, High blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and high cholesterol, Being engaged with active learning, Smoking

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What are the variants of APO?

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APOε2 decreases risk for AD

APO E4 binds to Aß in cerebrospinal fluid, found in plaques in AD brains, and increase risk for AD

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What is punch-drunk syndrome?

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a condition seen in boxers, often years after their retirement, and presumably caused by repeated cerebral injury

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What is evidence for gene-environment interaction in alzheimer’s?

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Risk for AD after severe head injury with loss of consciousness is much greater in individuals with one or more APOE4 alleles

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Which genotypes are more at risk for AD?

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E2/3, and 3/4

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What is coronary artery disease?

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CAD is a family of diseases that include hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and stroke

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Why is CAD worse in females?

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because it is more common in males, so if a female has it, then its is worse

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What is the concordance of CVD in twins?

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Concordance : 40-65% (monozygous); 15-30% (dizygous)

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What enzyme plays a role in CAD?

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ACE - CAUSES VASOCONSTRICTION, INCREASE ALDOSTERONE AND ADH SECRETION, INCREASE THIRST

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What does ACE inhibitor do?

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ACE inhibitors block the Angiotensin Converting

Enzyme (ACE).

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What hormones increase plasma glucose?

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glucagon, epinephrine, cortisol, and growth hormone

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What hormones decrease blood glucose?

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insulin

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Why is high plasma glucose bad?
1. Activation of the protein kinase Cβ 2. Glycation 3. Oxidative stress 4. Depletion of NAD+ (metabolic pseudohypoxia) 5. Vascular dysfunction in the kidneys
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What is the result of hyperglycemia induced activation?
Diabetic kidney leaks protein, and High blood pressure
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What quantified AGE elimination by the kidneys ?
HbA1c; Every 1% ↓ HbA1C results in 30% decrease in Microvascular Complications
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How are AGE formed?
Non-enzymatic reaction of proteins (and DNA) with glucose and and formation of adducts --> advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs).
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What is IDDM?
Diabetes Type 1 (IDDM) Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) Juvenile-onset diabetes
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What is NIDDM?
Diabetes Type 2 (NIDDM) Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) Adult-onset diabetes
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What is destructed in type 1 diabetes - autoimmune?
Selective destruction of β-cells by T cells and Several circulating antibodies against β-cells
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What is the prevalence of hypoinsulinemia?
see in 10% of diabetic cases, and 1/200 people
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What is the 1DDM1 Locus?
HLA Region - HLA DR3/4-DQ2/8 genotype
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What is the 1DDM2 Locus?
in insulin gene INS
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What allele influences INS?
14-bp VNTR repeat influencing transcription of INS
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What does VNTR do?
Allele reduces expression of insulin in fetal thymus, reducing immunotolerance to insulin and pancreatic Island cell later in life
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What are the rates of IDDM1 and INS?
50% for IDDM1 and 10% for INS
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How do you calculate the heritability of diabetes?
a = risk of siblings/population prevalence
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What are the heritability for diabetes 1 and 2?
``` 1 = 15% 2 = 3-4% ```
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What is hyperinsulinemia?
insulin resistance
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How is type 2 diabetes treated?
oral hypoglycemics
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What is the rate of concordance in type 2 diabetes for twins?
90% (monozygous); 30-40% (dizygous)
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What is MODY-Diabetes?
MODY (maturity-onset diabetes of the young) | Type I-like diabetes that is inherited as autosomal dominant disease (monogenic)
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What are the various mutation in MODY?
MODY1 (HNF4) MODY2 (glucokinase) MODY3 (HNF1) MODY4 (IDX1 islet-duodenum homeobox)
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Whats causes Hirschsprung Disease?
the Absence of ganglion cells in the parts of the colon and rectum
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What are the effects of short-segment HSCR disease?
affects the rectum and small portion of the colon 60−85% of cases
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What are the effects of long-segment HSCR disease?
affects a longer portion of the intestine; 15−25% of cases.
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What are the syndromic and nonsyndromic fates of HSCR?
70% - nonsyndromic forms (isolated) | 30% - syndromes (other problems)
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Which segment of Hirschsprung Disease is more severe?
long-segment is more severe than short segment | 3-4% and up to 17% in siblings (4:1 male to female)
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What type of disease is Hirschsprung disease?
oligogenic
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what are the 3 types of neural tube defects?
anencephaly, spina bifida, encephalocele, meningocele, myelomeningocele
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What are the genetic risk of neural tube defects?
Risk for first degree relatives - 4/100 Risk for second degree relatives - 1/100 Risk in population (before prevention) – 3/1000
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How is hyperhomocysteinemia caused?
caused by a deficiency of B vitamins and folate in diets, hypothyroidism, MTHFR C677T
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What are the risk associated with elevated homocysteine levels?
Coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis): Heart attack, and Stroke Peripheral arterial disease: Venous thrombosis, Deep vein thrombosis, Pulmonary embolism Dementia Having a child with a neural tube defect (ie, spina bifida)
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What are some symptoms of schizophrenia?
``` delusions hallucinations incoherence catatonic or hyperactive behavior flat affect ```
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What is the heritability for schizophrenia?
0.8 and 0.85
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what illnesses show strong correlation with schizophrenia?
strong positive correlation between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism, suggesting that they are caused by a common group of genes
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Hep B and minogoccus overlap with what neurological diseases?
migraines (strong correlation with autism), autism, and schizophrenia
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What is Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing?
Any genetic test accessible directly to the consumer without having to go through a healthcare professional. A variety of DTC tests ranges from testing for mutations linked to cystic fibrosis to hypertension predisposition. The lack of governmental regulation leads to a risk of potential misinterpretation of genetic information.
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What does a loss of function of presenilin causes?
The loss of function of presenilin causes incomplete digestion of the amyloid β-peptide and might contribute to an increased vulnerability of the brain, thereby explaining the early onset of the inherited form of Alzheimer disease.
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Dementia and APO4
Dementia risks are selectively increase in APOE4 carriers
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What alleles are associated with CAD?
ACE DD, ID, II alleles: DD genotype is associated with CAD
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how is hypo hyperinsulinemia treated?
hyper - oral hypoglycemics | hypo - insulin injections
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What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
Prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future Bars employers from using individuals’ genetic information when making hiring, firing, job placement, or promotion decisions
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What is the evident for gene-gene interactions?
Patients with PSEN1 mutation and E4 allele develop disease earlier than those with PSEN1 mutation and E3/E2 alleles
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breast cancer and mental illness
Genes that make women more vulnerable to breast cancer appear to be somewhat protected against bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
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What are the symptoms of punch drunk syndrome?
weakness in the lower limbs, unsteadiness of gait, slowness of muscular movements, tremors of hands, dysarthria, and slow thinking.
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What is insulin resistance?
the normal amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas is not enough stimulus for the cells to make them uptake the glucose (cells are insulin resistant)
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What is the hertability for neural tube defects?
Heritability = 0.6

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