GENETICS/GENES Flashcards
AD
CAG Trinucleotide repeat
HTT gene on Chrom 4
athetosis (shaking wrist/hands), chorea, dementia
Huntington’s disease- GABA neuron deficiency in caudate nucleus of BG
ATP7B gene
copper (Cu2+) accumulation in brain, kidneys, liver, eye (kayser-fleischer ring)
-DEFECT IN EXRCRETION OF COPPER INTO BILE
Wilson’s disease
*TOTAL COPPER levels are DECREASED
*CERULOPLASMIN DECREASE
*FREE COPPER LEVELS ARE INCREASED!!!
Prion disease
abnormal folding proteins in B pleated sheets
rapidly progressing dementia
ataxic
myoclonic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
what is the pathogenesis of Lewy body dementia?
(visual hallucinations, parkinsonism, fluctuating consciousness, REM sleep disorder)
-Alpha -synuclein aggregates (lewy bodies)
what is the pathogenesis of Wenicke encephalopathy/Korsakoff syndrome?
Chronic alcohol abuse
W: ataxia, horizontal nystagmus, lateral rectus palsy, confusion
K: severe memory impairment, retrograde/anterograde, confabulation
-atrophy of mammillary bodies
what is the path of MS?
(visual disturb, ataxia, GI/urinary probs, weakness, sens/neuro probs)
-AI destruction of myelin and oligodendrocytes
what disease is excessive daytime sleepy, cataplexy, hallucinations, sleep paralysis with decreased orexins (hypocretins) in lateral hypothalamus?
Narcolepsy
AR
disease with absent DNA repair enzymes and increased incidence of UVB related skin cancers
Xeroderma pigmentosum
MC vitamin def in alcoholics?
folate
MC metal def in alcoholics?
magnesium
what vitamin is associated with pyruvate dehydrogenase?
thiamin
what happens to the other kidney if one is damaged?
it undergoes hypertrophy
what vit toxicity decreases the levels of Vit k factors, increases incidence of hemorrhagic strokes, and potentiates the action of warfarin?
Vitamin E
carboxylase reaction in conversion of pyruvate –> oxaloacetate?
Biotin reaction
-Cherry red macula
Tay Sachs disease
transamination reactions involving transaminases AST and ALT?
pyridoxine B6
what inhibits ADH release, ATII effect on stimulating thirst, aldosterone secretion, renal absorption of Na (direct effect, Na loss in urine), inhibits renal release, and vasodilator the peripheral resistance vessels?
Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP)
**complete opposite of Angiotensin II
what is the chance of a male with cystic fibrosis to have a child?
less than 5%, since vas deferent never fully develop/are atretic
-females with CF can get pregnant but it is difficult w the thick cervical mucus
what are the vitamin supplements in CF?
all of the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K)
Woman is a pure vegan, is breastfeeding her baby, and baby develops anemia?
B12 deficiency
-attaches to CD21 molecule in B cells
Ebstein Barr Virus
what syndrome is hypogonadism, mental retardation, and unilateral gynecomastia?
Klinefelter syndrome (XXY)
what syndrome is hypogonadism, absent GnRH, smell problems (anosmia), and color blindness?
Kallman syndrome (hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism)
what syndrome is hypogonadism, mental retardation, retinas pigmentosum?
Lawrence Moon Biedl syndrome
what syndrome is AD PTPN11 gene problem in RAS-MAPK pathway, hypogonadism, mental retardation, short stature, webbed neck?
Noonan syndrome
what syndrome is Chrom 15 MICROdeletion of paternal origin, hypogonadism, mental retardation, short stature, obesity
Prader-Willi (angelman is deletion of a maternal origin)
patient with neurofibromatosis has severe diastolic hypertension?
probable pheochromocytoma
complications of cyclophosphamide?
hemorrhagic cystitis and transitional carcinoma of the bladder
*employees working in car assembly plant w HA/N/V, muscle weakness, abd cramps
**or people making moonshine in an old car radiator
Lead poisoning from incineration of batteries
what syndrome is a newborn female that has edema of hands/feet, cystic mass in neck, with 45 XO karyotype?
Turners syndrome
what vitamin is absent in colostrum (baby first milk)
Vitamin D
low in folate, B6, iron
high in potassium, chloride, arach acids, linoleum acids
Baby getting anemia from switching from cows milk –> goats milk
retinal hemorrhages in young children?
possible child abuse–> shaking syndrome
what bite is multiple wheals that later develop into vesicles/pustules?
Fire ant bites
what bite is PAINFUL, followed by crampy pain in thighs/abdomen ?
**carrying logs from outside, moving boxes in basement
Black widow bite
what is PAINFUL STING, followed by local itching, paresthesias, N/V, HTN?
poisonous type of scorpion bite in southwest
what bite is PAIN-LESS beginning with slightly tender red papular lesion on arm that later form a hemorrhagic blister with purpura?
Brown recluse spider bite
what bites are extremely itchy, bright red papules on legs and around waist?
Chigger bites
what disease is more likely to infect the fetus after the first trimester?
Syphilis
THC metabolites in urine after dying in accident?
delayed reaction time, impairs the persons ability to judge speed and distance
What is caused by vinyl chloride, arsenic, and thorotrast?
Angiosarcoma of the liver
Female pseudohermaphrodite with ^ ACTH, ^ urine 17-ketosteroids, LOW cortisol, LOW urine 17-hydroxycorticoids
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Female pseudohermaphrodite with ^ ACTH, ^ urine 17-ketosteroids, ^ 17-hydroxycorticoids, LOW cortisol
11-hydroxylase deficiency
MALE pseudohermaphrodite with ^ ACTH, LOW urine 17-ketosteroids, LOW urine 17-hydroxycorticoids, LOW cortisol
17-hydroxylase deficiency
what syndrome has LOW AFP?
downs syndrome