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What are the three “types” of diseases?

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  1. acquired (cancer)
  2. infectious
  3. inherited
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What are the 3 types of different ways that a genetic disease can be inherited?

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  1. Autosomal
  2. X/Y linked
  3. mitochondrial
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What is the difference between monogenic and polygenic?

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monogenic: one gene involved (Mendelian)
polygenic: multiple genes involved

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What are the consequences of mutations in coding/non-coding/regulatory regions?

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coding: could affect the proteins being built
noncoding: affects amount of gene expression
regulatory: disrupt transcription factor binding sites

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Define haplotype

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group of closely-linked genes that tend to be inherited as a block

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What are 2 reasons we would want to know what gene causes a disease?

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  1. screening purposes
  2. druggable targets
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What is a polygenic risk score?

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provide a measure of your disease risk due to your frequency of SNPs

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What are 3 biases with GWAS?

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  1. self reporting
  2. location of data collection
  3. sample type
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What is trio sequencing and how is it useful?

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sequencing genome of mother, father, and offspring
- able to tell if SNP in question is inherited from a parent

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What do microarrays measure for in GWAS?

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hetero(yellow) /homozygosity (red, green)

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whole exome sequencing better at detecting _________________ than whole genome sequencing?

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novel variance

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Why is exome sequencing advantageous?

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Takes less time since only the usable (exons) are sequenced

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What does a Manhattan plot show?

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shows the significance of the associations between each genetic variant (SNP)

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What is the purpose of GWAS?

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identify a genotype (gene) associated with a phenotype (disease)

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How was CFTR gene identified via positional cloning and Sanger sequencing?

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positional cloning was able to identify which chromosome the gene was on and comparative genomic narrowed the location down

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What is a current treatment for people with CF and the CFTR gene and how does it work?

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Trikafta; opens up ion channel to reduce mucus

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Is heterozygous or homozygous mutations worse?

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heterozygous

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The phenotypic severity of SNPs varies considerably, depending on the _____________ of the SNP relative to gene sequences and the genomic background of the individual

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location

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What is the Mendelian Inheritance of Man (MIOM)?

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record of all genes that are autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X/Y linked, and mitochondrial

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What is a katyotype?

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normal number or chromosomes

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What is cytogenetics?

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study of chromosomes

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What is aneuploidy?

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abnormal number of chromosomes

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What are 3 aneuploidies that we discussed in class?

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  1. Down Syndrome (trisomy 21)
  2. Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
  3. Patau Syndrome (trisomy 13)
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Trisomys are usually the result of ______________

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non-disjunction (mispaired chromosomes during replication)

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When are chromosome abnormalities typically detected?
in utero
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Chromosomal instability syndromes are caused by mutations in DNA repair pathways and are associated with high rates of ________________
cancer
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Cancer is a disease of the __________ in which cells divide uncontrollably
genome
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What is an example of a chromosomal instability disease?
Ataxia telagiectasia
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What are the three tissues of origin for cancers?
1. carcinomas (90%) 2. blood (9%) 3. sarcoma (1%)
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What tissue are carcinomas?
skin, lungs, gut
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what tissue are sarcoma?
bone, fat
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What is an example of acquired mutation causing cancer?
chemical radiation
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How do pathogens cause cancer?
interfere with genome
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What is Helicobactor pylari?
pathogen that causes stomach cancer
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mutations that lead to transformation are associated with what 3 types of genes?
1. oncogenes 2. tumor supressor genes 3.apoptosis related genes
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what are oncogenes?
promote cell growth
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what do tumor suppressor genes inhibit?
cell growth
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What are the 6 hallmarks of cancer?
1. self- sufficiency in growth signals 2. insensitivity to anti-growth signals 3. evading apoptosis 4. limitless replication 5. angiogensis (new blood vessels) 6. mustastasis (maligenant growths)
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What are driver mutations v. passenger mutations?
dirver: Mutations that provide a selective growth advantage, and thus promote cancer development passenger: those that do not are termed passenger mutations
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How does radiation treat cancer?
induces DNA damage to initiate apoptosis
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How does chemotherapy treat cancer?
induces DNA damage to initiate apoptosis
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How does alkylating agents treat cancer?
crosslink DNA and replication - damaging DNA preventing replication
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How does antimetabolites treat cancer?
chemically resemble nucleotides, tricking cancer cells into using its drug
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How does antimicrotubules treat cancer?
inhibit microtubule function which block cell cycle
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What 3 molecules are involved in triple negative breast cancer?
1. estrogen receptor (ER) 2. progesteron receptor (PR) 3. HER2
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What is Estrogen Receptors targeted with in breast cancer for treatment?
tamoxifen
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What is the advantage to personalized medicine for cancer treatment?
affect healthy cells less and cells involved in cancer more
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______________ chemotherapy then surgery is given for breast cancer patients but only works 50% of time
neoadjuvant
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What is the purpose of single cell sequencing for tumors?
it distinguishes different cell types in tumor tissue
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How does single cell sequencing work?
1. disassociate single cells of tumors 2. one cell per plate 3. add one barcode per plate 4. mix 5. NGS
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What is intratumor heterogeneity?
individual cells can accumulate thier own mutations
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What are the 2 reasons for chemoresistance?
1. chemoresistant cells were there all along 2. chemo caused them
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what are 3 challenges of gene therapy?
1. how do we get in new DNA 2. need to understand problem 3. need to be very specific (safety)
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What are 3 things that work best for gene therapy? (1 genes and 2 diseases)
heritable genes monogenic disease tissue specific disease
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what is an advantage and disadvantage of in vivo gene therapy?
advantage: it's easier to target internal organs. It's also less complicated, since cells don't need to be removed from a person at all. disadvantage: they require very precise delivery of genetic material to the damaged area of the body.
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What is an example of a lentivirus?
AID
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What are 3 reasons lentiviruses are useful?
1. infects dividing/non-dividing cells 2. permanently integrates into host 3. carries long pieces of DNA
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what is a disadvantage of lentiviruses?
inserts randomly into genome and inserts some of its own DNA
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what is an example of a lentivirus used to treat B-thalassemia (hemoglobin issue)?
Zynteglo
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What are 3 advantages of Adeno-assocaited viruses? (AAV)
1. non pathogenic 2. infected dividing/non-dividing cells 3. integrates into 1 place
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what is a disadvantage of Adeno-assocaited viruses? (AAV)
can only carry small pieces of DNA
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what is an example of a AAV used to treat spinal muscular atrophy by providing SMN1?
Zolgensma
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Who was the first person to die from a clinical trial involving gene therapy?
Jesse Gelsinger
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What disease did Jesse Gelsinger have?
OTC deficiency causes a build up ammonia
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What did the death of Jesse do?
reformed informed consent
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Is ex vivo or in vivo better for treating blood disorders?
ex vivo
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What are CAR T cells?
T cells that detect cancer
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What are CAR T cells build with?
suicide switches (injected to kills CAR T cells)
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Why is forensics so concerved?
link to law
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What are the 3 goals of forensics?
1. establish paternity 2. identify remains 3. identify suspects
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What is DNA finger printing?
identifying a series of short tandum repeats (STR)
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What are short tandum repeats?
repeats on codons that can be used in DNA finger printing to identify people based on how many repeats they have
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DNA fingerprinting uses ___________ electrophoresis
capillary
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What is genetic geneology?
using publicly available genetic data base to find relatives (gold state killer)
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What is a method to identify tissue?
microarrrays (look at transcriptomics)
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How is measuring microbiomes useful?
each person has a unique microbiome tell time of death

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