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Second half of Module 2 Flashcards

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Autosomal Dominant

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Doesn’t skip generations, male to male transmission, affected children have one affected parent

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Autosomal Recessive

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Skips generations, male to male transmission, affected children are born to unaffected parents

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X-linked dominant

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Doesn’t skip generations, no male to male transmission, more males will have it

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X-linked Recessive

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Skips generations, more females than males, no male to male transmission

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Y-linked

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All males, affected fathers give it to all their sons

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Doesn’t skip generations?

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Dominant

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Skips generations?

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Recessive

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What your gene SAYS?

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Genotype

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What your gene IS; physical traits?

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Phenotype (blonde hair, blue eyes)

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3 DNA samples?

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Mother’s blood, Ameocentisis, chorionic Villus Sampling

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Pulls out amniotic fluid from mother, usually do it between 15-18 weeks?

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Ameocentisis

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Pulls of part of the placenta through the vagina at about 10-12 weeks?

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Chorionic Villus Sampling

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Genetic Testing?

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Ameocentisis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, Prenatal Testing, Pre-implication, karyotyping

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What is Turner’s disease?

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chromosomal condition that affects development in females

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When there is only 1 X-chromosome present and has abnormalities in the fetus?

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Turner’s Disease

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What disease was discovered by Dr. Henry Turner? What year?

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Turner’s Disease in 1938

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Not recognized as a chromosomal abnormality until 1960?

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Turner’s Disease

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18
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Occurs 1 in 5000 births?

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Turner’s Disease

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19
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Identified by Warren Tay, in what year?

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1881

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20
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Cherry red spot on the eye?

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Tay-Sach’s Disease

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Tay-Each’s Disease affects what enzyme?

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Beta-Hexosaminidase

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Where is Beta-Hexosaminidase located?

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In the lysosomes

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What does Beta-Hexosaminidase break down?

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GM2 Ganglioside

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What inheritance is Tay-Sach’s Disease?

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Autosomal Recessive

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Tay-Each’s Disease is on what chromosome? What is it Loci?

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Chromosome 15 on Loci 15q23

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If a low or even absence of Beta-Hexosaminidase A what is the disease?

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Beta-Hexosaminidase

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Commonly found in people of ashkenazi Jewish Heritage, french-canadiana communities of Quebec, and the Cajun people of Louisiana

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Tay-Sach’s Disease

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28
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Was discovered by Dr. Asbjorn Folling in what year?

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PKU in 1934

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How did PKU come about?

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The doctor tested two children that were mentally deficient and had a weird urine smell

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What did the children’s urine consist of?

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Phenylpyrivuc Acid

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31
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Inherited metabolic disorder?

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PKU

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32
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What metabolites does PKU produce?

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Intellectual disability, delayed development, behavioral and emotional and social problems, poor bone strength, hyperactivity, small head

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33
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Build of amino acid called phenylalanine?

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PKU

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34
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What plays a role in the amino acids that plays an effect on proteins that help make thymine which helps with brain improvement?

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Phenylalanine

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35
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What inheritance is PKU?

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Autosomal Recessive

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36
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PKU is located on what chromosome? What is it’s loci?

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Chromosome 12 loci 12q22-124.1

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Affects 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 depending on country and origin?

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PKU

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38
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The medications Kuvan and LNAA is are for what disease?

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PKU

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39
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Meat, fish, poultry, egg, cheese, milk, tired peas, and beans are suppose to be avoided by what disease?

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PKU

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40
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What disease requires a strict diet?

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PKU

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41
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George Huntington discovered what disease in what year?

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Huntington’s Disease in 1972

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42
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Irritability, depression, small involuntary movements, poor coordination, trouble making decisions, jerking and twitching all over their body happens in adult-onset

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Huntington’s Disease

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43
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Life expectancy after receiving symptoms of Huntington’s Disease?

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15 to 20 years

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44
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Two types of Huntington’s Disease?

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Adult-onset and juvenile form

45
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Symptoms are the same as adult type but include slowed movements, spurred speech, and drooling?

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Juvenile Form

46
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Life expectancy of children with Huntington’s Disease who begin the symptoms?

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10 to 15 years

47
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inheritance of Huntington’s Disease?

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Autosomal Dominant

48
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CAG trinucleotide reacts in the HTT gene in what disease?

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Huntington’s Disease

49
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Huntington’s Disease is located on what chromosome?

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Chromosome 4

50
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What disease occurs from CAG multiples 36-120 times?

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Huntington’s Disease

51
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The Royal Disease?

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Hemophilia

52
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Dr. John Conrad Otto discovered which disease in what year?

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Hemophilia in 1803

53
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Queen Victoria was a carrier of what disease?

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Hemophilia

54
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Two types of Hemophilia?

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Mild & severe

55
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Experience bleeding only after serious injury, trauma or surgery? With spontaneous bleeding episodes

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Mild Hemophilia

56
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Experience bleeding right after injury and have frequent and spontaneous bleeding episodes

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Severe Hemophilia

57
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Hemophilia A & B are located on what chromosomes?

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F8 and F9

58
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______ causes the gene to not be able to produce a sufficient amount of proteins related to blood clotting.

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Hemophilia

59
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Hemophilia is what inheritance?

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X-linked Recessive

60
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400,000 people affected by this disease worldwide?

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Hemophilia

61
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Carl Muller discovered this disease in what year?

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia in 1938

62
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Produces high blood cholesterol and myocardial infarctions in your people?

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia

63
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What does Familial Hypercholesterolemia create in the bloodstream?

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LDL – bad type of cholesterol

64
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Gene mutated in Familial Hypercholesterolemia?

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Chromosome 19

65
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Mode of inheritance for Familial Hypercholesterolemia?

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Autosomal Dominant

66
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What is the loci for Familial Hypercholesterolemia?

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1p32

67
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Xanthomas on your skin and corneal arcus can help determine what disease?

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia

68
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Diet and exercise can help this disease?

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia

69
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Trisomy 21?

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Down Syndrome

70
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Dr. John Langdon Down discovered what disease in what year?

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Down Syndrome in the 1800’s

71
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When a person has 2 21st chromosomes?

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Down Syndrome

72
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What does Down Syndrome cause?

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Mental Retardness

73
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Translocation occurs in what disease by 4%?

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Down Syndrome

74
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Women over 40 have a 60% greater chance of having a child with what disease?

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Down Syndrome

75
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1 in 1000 people are affected with _____?

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Down Syndrome

76
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Diagnosed by Dorothy Andersen what year?

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Cystic Fibrosis in 1938

77
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Found what disease by looking at a child killed by celiac disease?

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Cystic Fibrosis

78
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Cystic Fibrosis is located on what chromosome?

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7

79
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CFTR gene causes what to happen in the respiratory and GI tract?

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Mucus build up

80
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Those diagnosed with CF experience thick build up of ____ in the _____?

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Mucus; lungs

81
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CF is what mode of inheritance?

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Autosomal Recessive

82
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Locus Position for CF?

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7q31

83
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CF is diagnose with younger children and at most by age ____?

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2

84
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Most common in what ancestry?

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Europeans

85
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Dr. John Wasmuth discovered what disease in what year?

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Achondroplasia Dwarfism in 1994

86
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Without cartilage formation?

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Achondroplasia Dwarfism

87
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Achondroplasia Dwarfism is what mode of inheritance?

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Autosomal Dominant

88
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80% is caused by spontaneous mutation?

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Achondroplasia Dwarfism

89
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Achondroplasia Dwarfism have what affects?

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Shortened arms & legs, enlarged heads, prominent foreheads, trident fingers

90
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Achondroplasia Dwarfism results from a mutation in what gene?

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FGFR3

91
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Achondroplasia Dwarfism is located of what chromosome?

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4

92
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There is a change in one base part where a guanine is suppose to be there by codes as a adenine

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Achondroplasia Dwarfism

93
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1 in 15,000 to 1 in 35,000 are affected

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Achondroplasia Dwarfism

94
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Discovered by Dr. Burril B Crohn in what year?

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1932; Crohn’s Disease

95
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Affects the digestive tract which ranges from the mouth to the rectal area?

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Crohn’s Disease

96
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Located on get IL23R and on what chromosome?

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Crohn’s Disease; 5 and 10

97
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LBD5 and LBD6 are what loci of a disease?

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Crohn’s Disease

98
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Inheritance for Crohn’s Disease?

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Autosomal Recessive

99
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Missing both copies of one of the chromosomes

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Nullisomy

100
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Missing 1 chromosome

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Monosomy

101
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Having 3 copies of a chromosome

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Trisomy

102
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Have 4 copies of a chromosome

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Tetrasomy

103
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Caused by nondisjunction during meiosis

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Aneuploidy

104
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Having 2 or more sets of chromosomes

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Polyploidy

105
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Familial Down Syndrome?

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Translocation

106
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Individual has normal cell and cells with trisomy 21

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Mosaicism

107
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Errors in mitosis

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Tetraploidy

108
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Due to dispermy

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Triploidy

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