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Question 1

Clinical genetics

Answer 1

Part of medical genetics concerned with disorders in individual patients and their families
Science and practice of diagnosis, prevention, and management of genetic disorders

Question 2

Monoclonal antibodies

Answer 2

Monospecific antibodies
Made by identical immune cells
Bind same epitope

Question 3

Applications of human genome

Answer 3

Predictive medicine and diagnostics
Product development
Identify gene function
Population genetics
Genome organization
Evolutionary studies

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Multifactorial inheritance

Answer 4

Diseases that show familial clustering but do not conform to any recognised pattern of single gene inheritance

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Linkage disequilibrium

Answer 5

non-random association of alleles at two or more loci, that descend from single, ancestral chromosomes

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GWAS

Answer 6

Genome wide association study

Examination of common genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait

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Exome

Answer 7

Genome formed by exons

Lower cost than whole-genome sequencing

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Biomarkers

Answer 8

Measurable indicator of severity or presence of some disease state

Question 9

Muc4

Answer 9

Mucin protein
Integral membrane glycoprotein
Role in progression of cancer by repressing apoptosis

Question 10

Haemocyanin

Answer 10

Copper containing

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Haemoerythrin

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Non-haem containing protein

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Myoglobin

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Increases solubility of oxygen

Facilitates oxygen diffusion

Question 13

T state

Answer 13

Deoxy state

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R

Answer 14

Oxy state