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Inheritance Patterns Flashcards

1
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What is the symbol for a male on a pedigree?

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→ A square

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What is the symbol for a female on a pedigree?

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→ A circle

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How do you show that two people are partners on a pedigree?

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→ There is a line between them

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How do you show children on a pedigree?

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→ There is a line down

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How do you show siblings on a pedigree?

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→ There is a line above connecting them from the top

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How do you show affected people on a pedigree?

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→ They are colored in

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How do you show carriers on a pedigree?

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→ A shaded dot within the shape

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How do you show a consanguineous couple on a pedigree?

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→ A double line joining them

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What is a stillborn baby of unknown sex on a pedigree?

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→ A rhombus with the SB symbol

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How is a spontaneous abortion shown on a pedigree?

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→ a triangle

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How is a therapeutic abortion shown on a pedigree?

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→ A triangle with a line through it diagonally

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12
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How are twins shown on a pedigree?

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→ two shapes coming from the same vertical line

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How is pregnancy shown on a pedigree?

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→ A rhombus with a P inside it

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14
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What is a rhombus on a pedigree?

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→ Unaffected person whose sex is unknown

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15
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How do autosomal dominant conditions manifest?

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→ Heterozygous form

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What are the 4 key things to look for in an autosomal dominant pedigree?

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→ Multiple generations affected
→ Both sexes
→ Male to female and female to male transmission
→ Most will have an affected parent

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How do you know that an autosomal dominant condition is not carried on the sex chromosome?

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→ Both genders are affected

→ Transmission between sexes

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18
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What is the risk for each child of an affected parent with an autosomal dominant condition?

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→ 50% risk

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19
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What is penetrance?

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→ % of individuals who carry the mutation and develop symptoms of the disorder

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20
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What does a 75% penetrance mean?

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→ Someone can have the dominant allele but not phenotypically have the disease
→ Huntingtons

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21
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What is variable expressivity?

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→ Variation in the severity/symptoms of the disorder

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22
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What is a condition that exhibits variable expressivity?

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→ Neurofibromatosis I

23
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What is somatic mosaicism?

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→ New mutation arises at an early stage of embryogenesis
→ Present in some tissues or cells
→ If the majority of cells are not affected then the disease severity is reduced

24
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What is germ line mosaicism?

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→ New mutation arises during oogenesis or spermatogenesis
→ Mutation present in variable proportion of gametes
→ Some gametes will have the mutation and some will not

25
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Which type of mosaicism can be transmitted to offspring?

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→ Germ line mosaicism

26
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What is anticipation and what kind of disorders does this occur in?

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→ Worsening of the disease severity in successive generations
→ occurs in triplet repeat disorders

27
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How do autosomal recessive conditions manifest?

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→ Homozygous

→ Compound heterozygous

28
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What are the key things to look for in an autosomal recessive pedigree?

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→ Carriers (heterozygote) not affected
→ Both sexes affected
→ One generation affected
→ can be consanguinity 
→ Affected individual does not have affected parents
29
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What is a compound heterozygote?

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→ 2 mutations are in the same gene

→ Mutations are different

30
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What is a homozygote?

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→ 2 mutations in the same gene

→ Identical mutations

31
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What is an example of different mutations in genes in a compound heterozygote? (cystic fibrosis)

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→ delta F508

→ G542X

32
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What is an example of the same mutation in genes in a homozygote? (cystic fibrosis)

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→ Delta F508

→ Delta F508

33
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What are 4 features of autosomal recessive inheritance

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→ Found in clusters of siblings but not in parents and offspring
→ All offspring of affected person are obligate carriers

34
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What is the carrier probability for autosomal recessive inheritance?

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→ 2/3 for unaffected siblings of affected person

35
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What is the recurrence risk for autosomal recessive inheritance?

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→ 1/4 for each sibling of the affected person

36
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What are the 2 features of X linked recessive inheritance?

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→ Women are unaffected carriers

→ no male to male transmission

37
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What are the 2 features of X linked dominant inheritance?

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→ Women are affected

→ Males are more severely affected/lethal

38
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Why can women be homo or heterozygous for X linked inheritance?

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→ They have 2 copies of the X chromosome

39
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Why can men not be homo or heterozygous?

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→ They only have a single copy of the X linked gene

40
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How are X linked genes never passed?

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→ never passed from father to son

41
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What are all daughters of affected males with an X linked inheritance?

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→ obligate carriers

42
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What is skewed X inactivation?

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→ The majority of genes on a woman’s X chromosome are inactivate
→ One of the X chromosomes are inactivated in all the cells
→ The healthy X chromosome is switched off more often than not so the mutated protein is expressed

43
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What is an example of manifesting carriers in X linked disorders?

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→ Some women have symptoms

→ Cardiomyopathy in DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy)

44
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What is Y linked inheritance always passed from and to and what is an example of this?

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→ Father to son

→ Hirsutism

45
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What is a mutation?

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→ A change in genetic material

46
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What is a pathogenic mutation?

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→ results in an alteration of the function of the gene product which causes a disease phenotype

47
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What are 3 types of mutations?

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→ Substitutions
→ Deletions
→ Insertions

48
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What is a silent/synonymous change?

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→ A nucleotide change without an amino acid change

49
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What is a missense mutation?

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→ Replacement of a single nucleotide

→ Incorrect amino acid gets produced

50
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What is the impact of amino acid substitution?

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→ Physiochemical similarity between two amino acids
→ Functional role of a specific domain of protein
→ Phylogenetic conservation of amino acid amongst diverse species

51
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What is a nonsense mutation?

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→ Replacement of a nucleotide
→ Stop codon is produced
→ Shortening of protein

52
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What does an insertion mutation do?

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→ Incorrect amino acid sequence

53
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What types of insertion are there?

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→ In frame (multiple of 3)

→ Frameshift (not a multiple of 3)

54
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What types of deletion are there?

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→ In frame (multiple of 3)

→ Frameshift (not a multiple of 3)

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