Genetics 1 Flashcards

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What is a genes locus?

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The precise position of the gene on the chromosome

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What is an allele?

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Alternative forms of a gene

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What is a genetic disease?

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One caused by a change in the genes.

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What do promotor and splice site sequence change mutations cause?

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Stop transcription or cause abnormal splicing

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What can some missense mutations do?

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Make a protein work faster

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What is a wild type?

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An individual having normal DNA sequences

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What is a stop mutation?

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Where a premature stop codon is introduced so the rest of the sequence is not transcribed or translated

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What is a missense mutation?

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Where there is a different base in the DNA sequence (substitution) but it only affects the codon it is in, the codons after the mutation are unaffected.

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What is an Insertion mutation?

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Where a base is inserted into the DNA sequence, casing all the codons after the point of mutation to be affected

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What is a deletion out of frame mutation?

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Where a single base is deleted and so all codons after the point of mutation are affected

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What is a deletion in frame mutation?

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Where a whole codon is deleted but all codons after the mutation stay the same

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What is a triple expansion mutation?

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Where a codon is repeated

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What is mendelian inheritance?

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A change in a SINGLE gene sufficient to cause clinical disease

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What is non-mendelian inheritance

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Everything else including multifactorial diseases (More than one genetic risk factor)

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Describe the percentage of DNA shared by 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree relatives

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1st - 50%.
2nd - 25%.
3rd - 12.5%

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What is autosomal dominant mutations?

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A mutation on any chromosome that isn’t a sex chromosome that makes the person affected. (only need one copy of mutation to become affected)

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What is allelic heterogeneity?

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Where different mutations in the came gene can cause the same disease

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What is locus heterogeneity?

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Where the same disease may be caused by mutations in one of several genes

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Describe features of autosomal dominant mutations

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Disease will be seen in every generation however the severity of disease can be variable. Males and females are equally likely to be affected. 50% chance of passing it too offspring

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What is autosomal recessive

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A mutation where you need both chromosomes to have the mutation to be afffected

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Describe some features of autosomal recessive mutations

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Often only one generation is affected. 25% chance of passing it onto offspring. Increased likelihood in consanguineous families.

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What is an X-linked disease?

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A mutation on the X chromosome that causes clinical disease. It is often recessive

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Describe features of an X-linked recessive inheritance

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For female carriers - Half of male children affected and half of daughters will be carriers.
For affected male - All sons will be normal but all daughters will be carriers

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What does nonpenetrance mean?

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Failure of a genotype to manifest

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Variable expression
Where different family members may show different features of a disorder
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Where are nonpenetrance and variable expression seen more often?
In dominant conditions
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Describe features of mitochondrial DNA
Contains important genes for mitochondrial metabolic pathways and ribosomal RNA, inherited exclusively maternally and point mutations and deletions can occur
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Describe features of mitochondrial inheritance
Diseases in mitochondrial DNA is rare, is is via maternal transmission only and sons and daughters are equally affected.