Genetics Flashcards
Southern Analysis
DNA probe to digested DNA
SNOW DROP
Northern Analysis
DNA probe to digested RNA
SNOW DROP
Western Analysis
Antibody probe to protein of interest
SNOW DROP
Excised out to make mature RNA
Intron (Exon stays)
Affected father transmits carrier state to all of his daughters
X-linked recesive
Disease 2x more common in females than males
X-linked dominant
Affected father transmits disease to all of his daughters
X-linked dominant
Affected mother has 50% chance passing disease to sons or daughters
X-linked dominant
Which has higher recurrence risk? Syndrome or association
Association
Increased risk with advanced paternal age
Achondroplasia OI Thanatrophic dysplasia Apert syndrome Crouzon syndrome NF Klienefleter and T21 slight increase
Arachnodactyly
(Long, spider like fingers)
Homocystinuria, Marfan syndrome
Camptodactyly
(Flexed digits, usually proximal 5th finger )
Trisomy 8 or isolated
Cystic hygroma
Noonan syndrome & turner
Also deletion 13q, 13, 18, 21
Hypotelorism
Holoprosencephaly
Meckel-Gruber
Williams
Trisomy 13
Limb hypertrophy
BWS, Klippel Trenauney Weber syndrome
Lips, thick and or prominent
Trisomy 8
WAGR sx
Williams sx
Hypogenitalia
Carpenter
Klinefelter
Prader Willi
Smith Lemli Opitz
Macroglossia
BWS
Congenital hypothyroidism
T21
Radial hypoplasia
Fanconi TAR (T for Thumbs always present) VACTERL Holt Oram Cornelia de Lange Poland Sequence T13 and 18
Prominent cupped ears
Trisomy 8
Cutis aplasia
T13
overlapping of 2nd finger over 3rd and 5th over 4th
T18
MC heart defect in T21
Endocardial cushion defect
Hypoplastic middle phalanx in 5th digit
T21
Brushfield spots
T21
speckled iris
cat like cry
Cri du chat (5p deletion)
Greek warrior helmet
Wolf Hirschhorn (4p deletion)
Widely spaced teeth, large mouth
Angelman
Inappropriate bursts of laughter
Angelman
CATCH 22
Cardiac Abnormal facies Thymic hypoplasia Cleft palate Hypoclacemia
Heart defect in 22q11.2 deletion
Aortic arch abnormalities
R sided aortic arch, IAA, truncus
Broad thumbs and first toes
Rubenstein Taybi syndrome (16p13.3) Apert syndrome (AD)
Heart defect in Wiliams syndrome
SupraValVular sub aortic stenosis > PPS
stellate iris pattern
Williams sx
Trident hands
Achondroplasia
MC cardiac defect in Noonan syndrome
dysplastic pulmonary valve
ASD, CM
Absent, hypoplastic or abnormally shaped thumbs
Holt Oram syndrome
Fanconi
VACTERL
Lens subluxation
Marfan (Upward)
Homocystinuria (Downward)