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Molecular Biology & Genetics 6 - Population Genetics & Natural Selection+ Sequencing the Human Genome Flashcards

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What is a population?

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Localised group of individuals of the same species

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What is the gene pool?

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Total aggregate of genes (and their alleles) in the population at one time

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Why do we need to estimate genotype frequencies?

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To predict how many individuals will inherit a genetic disease and to estimate the proportion of individuals. who are carriers of a genetic disease as this can’t be observed

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How do we estimate the genotype frequencies?

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Using the hardy-weinberg equation

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What is the hardy Weinberg equation?

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p^2+2pq+q^2=1

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What is p^2?

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The proportion of homozygous dominant

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What is 2pq?

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The proportion of heterozygous

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What is q^2?

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The proportion of homozygous recessive

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What is the allele frequency equation?

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p+q=1

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What is p?

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The frequency of the dominant allele

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What is q?

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The frequency of the recessive allele

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How can allele frequencies change?

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By non random mating, random genetic drift, the bottleneck effect, the founder effect, natural selection, mutations and migration

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What are types of non-random mating?

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Assortative mating and inbreeding

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What is assortative mating?

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When a particular genotype is more likely to mate with the genotype the same as themselves

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What is inbreeding?

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Breeding with a related individual which isn’t always avoidable in smaller populations

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What is random genetic drift?

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A random change in the allele frequencies due to sampling error over generations

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What does random genetic drift depend on?

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The mating combinations and how many individuals mate

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What is random genetic drift noticeable in?

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Particularly in small populations

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What is the result of a population bottleneck/reduction event?

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Loss or decrease in frequency of some alleles and decreased genetic diversity

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What is the founder effect?

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A population bottleneck as a result of a new population being established

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What is genetic diversity of new populations dependent on?

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The founders and is often less diverse than the original population

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What are the types of natural selection?

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Stabilising selection, directional selection, disruptive selection and sexual selection and frequency dependent selection

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What happens in stabilising selection?

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The medium individual phenotype is favoured by natural selection. The peak gets higher and narrower

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What is the result of stabilising selection?

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Reduces variation but doesn’t change the mean

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What happens in directional selection?
Larger or smaller individual phenotype is favoured by natural selection. The peak shifts in one direction.
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What is the result of directional selection?
Changes the mean value towards one extreme
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What happens in disruptive selection?
Large and small phenotypes are favoured by natural selection forming two peaks
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What is the result of disruptive selection?
Favours two extremes producing two peaks
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What is sexual selection?
When males have features (e.g. long tails/feathers) which attract females and the "better" this is the more likely they are to attract a female
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What is frequency dependent selection?
The rare (low frequency) individual obtains more food and becomes more common but then the other individual does better and balances this effect out
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What is a mutation?
Very slow to act and usually disadvantageous, its role is usually of macroevolutionary proportions
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What is migration ?
When an individual from another population successfully mates and contributes gametes to the gene pool
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What are the results of migration?
Bringing new alleles, changing proportions of existing alleles, changing population size, making two populations more similar
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What is cline?
The gradual geographic change in genetic/phenotypic composition
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When did the human genome project begin?
1990
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What did the human genome project aim to identify?
All human genes and their roles
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What did the human genome project aim to analyse?
Genetic variation between humans
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What did the human genome project aim to sequence?
The genomes of several model organisms used in genetics
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What did the human genome project aim to develop?
New sequences and computational analyses
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What did the human genome project aim to share?
Genome information with scientists and the general public as fast as possible
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What is a genome?
A complete set of DNA of an organism, including all its genes
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What is genomics?
The study of genomes
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What does nuclear DNA consist of?
22 autosomes, X and Y
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What does mitochondrial DNA consist of?
Single, circular DNA
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How many base pairs in nuclear DNA?
6 billion
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How many base pairs in mitochondrial DNA?
16,569
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Where does nuclear DNA come from?
Half from each parent
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Where does mitochondrial DNA come from?
All from the mother
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How many genes in nuclear DNA?
<21,000
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How many genes in mitochondrial DNA?
37 genes
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What is the human reference genome made up of?
Lots of different people
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What were some of the key findings of the human genome?
There are fewer genes than expected, the genome is dynamic, most human genes are related to those of other animals
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What do we still not know about the human genome?
What many of our protein coding genes do
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How similar are humans?
All humans are 99.9% similar at sequence level
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How much of the genome codes for proteins?
Less than 2%
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How much of the genome codes for introns?
20%
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How many genes have unknown function still?
About 25%
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While any two human genomes are 99.9% similar...
across the population, there is a lot of variation and it is important (for natural selection)
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What are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP's)?
Sites in the DNA that commonly vary within populations- common single base pair changes or variants
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How many SNP's are there?
1.9 million
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How common are SNP's?
common- around 1 in every 300 nucleotides
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Where do SNP's come from?
Mostly from parents (half from mother and half from father)
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What does each genome sequenced do?
Adds to the variation on record
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What does diversity in genome sequencing do?
Adds to the knowledge of variation
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What do many SNP's do?
The don't do anything, they are just inherited variations but that doesn't mean they're not useful
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What can genotyping tell you?
Who you are related to, where (some of) your ancestors are from, disease risk/association, if you will lose your hair, your muscle type, how you might respond to drugs
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What can genotyping also be used for?
In crime solving
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What do some of our SNP's reveal?
Our species ancestral interbreeding with other hominins
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Where are linked SNP's found and what do they do?
Found outside of a gene and have no effect on protein production or function
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Where are causative SNP's found?
In the gene
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What are the two types of causative SNP's?
Coding SNP's and non-coding SNP's
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What do coding SNP's do?
change the amino acid sequence and therefore the protein produced
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What do non-coding SNP's do?
change the amount of a protein produced
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What happens if the second or third base is the SNP?
they are less likely to affect the amino acid, protein and therefore phenotype
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What are short tandem repeats (STR's)?
Repeats of 2-5 nucleotides found in specific regions of the genome
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What does each person inherit with respect to STR's?
2 alleles, one from each biological parent, which can be different lengths
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What can STR's be used for?
To create genetic profiles or "DNA fingerprints"
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What are indels?
small insertions or deletions
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Are insertions or deletions more common?
Deletions
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What is the second most common variant type in the human genome?
Indels
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How many indels are there?
0.2 million
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What can indels cause?
A frameshift which is a change in the way DNA is read if in protein coding regions
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What are copy number variations?
Chunks of DNA >500 base pairs that are present at different amounts or "copy numbers" relative to a reference genome
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What can copy number variants be?
deleted or duplicated
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What can copy number variations do?
Span multiple genes
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How many CNV's do humans have?
10,000 found within and between genes
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What are many genes in CNV's associated with?
Sensory perception and immunity
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How many large CNV's are there and how many genes do they affect?
23 and they effect 34 genes

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