Genetics 1 - Inheritance Patterns Flashcards
essential learning outcomes
Klippel-Feil Syndrome clinical symptoms
webbed neck
high arched palate
normal carrying angle
low set hairline - mid thoracic spine
congenital protrusion from skull
pectus excavatum
no organomegaly
kyphoscoliosis
significant restricted range of movement cervical and thoracic spine
SOB - minimal exertion
acute kidney injury
thoracic aortic aneurysm and thoracoabdominal aneurysm
dilation of aortic arch
bilateral pulmonary hyperinflation
what causes symptoms of Kippel-Feil Syndrome
congenital fusion of any 2 of 7 cervical vertebrae
Klippel-Feil Syndrome - mutations of what genes
GDF6
GDF3
MEOX1
(bone development)
Klippel-Feil Syndrome inheritance pattern
can be autosomal dominant or recessive (depends on gene involved)
Huntington disease inheritance pattern
autosomal dominant pattern
characteristics of Huntington
progressive neuronal loss - loss of neurons in basal ganglia
disease onset usually 30’s or 40’s
survival for 15-20 yrs after 1st symptoms
gene associated with Huntington
what sort of mutation is it
HTT gene
Polyglutamine/repeat expansion mutation
Trinucleotide repeat - repeat for CAG (makes glutamine)
Multiple copies of CAG
Non functional huntington protein
The more repeats you have, the earlier you are likely to display symptoms and more severe the phenotype will be
anticipation of Huntington
offspring may have earlier onset/more severe phenotype than parent due to further expansion of the repeat
risk for children - Huntington
27-35 repeats
incomplete penetrance - Huntington
36-39 repeats
no of repeats needed to develop Huntington
40+
how to screen for Huntington
preimplantation and prenatal diagnosis
select the non-hereditary, congenital diseases from the following list
rank these concepts in order of appearance
autosomal inheritance
not sex dependent
allele located on 1 of 22 autosomes
X-linked inheritance
clear pattern of sex dependent inheritance
allele located on the X chromosome
pedigree interpretation
what’s the pattern of mendelian inheritance
recessive
neither of Alexei’s parents have the condition
X linked recessive pattern - Mendelian inheritance
character is typically manifested in male offspring of UNAFFECTED offspring
not in offspring of affected males
X linked recessive basis - Mendelian inheritance
genetic locus is on an X chromosome
female has 2 X chromosomes
non-functional allele on 1 X chromosome means
- 1 functional allele for a woman
- no functional allele for a man
how can a female with carrier mother display classical haemophilia A
de novo mutation in the “good” allele
or
daughter of haemophiliac father and carrier mother
also by UPD of maternal X or by skewed X-inactivation of paternal X
vit D resistant rickets also known as
inheritance pattern
X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH)
X linked dominant
what is the only known Y linked character
maleness
50% chance that each child of an affected male will manifest the character
what pattern of mendelian inheritance is this
autosomal recessive
what pattern of mendelian inheritance is this
both males and females affected so probably not X linked
affected in every generation
AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT
e.g. of a dichotomous trait
cleft chin - dominant
1 gene (MENDELIAN)