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Structural Aberrations Flashcards

1
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This is the meaning for ISCN.

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International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature

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This is the concept wherein each area of chromosomes is given a number.

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ISCN

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This is the lowest number closes to the centromere.

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Proximal

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This is the highest number at the tip to the centromere.

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Distal

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This is how to read 3p22.

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3p = 3rd Chromosome
2 = 2 band
2 = 2 sub-band

chromosome:band:sub-band

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This is the meaning behind ptel and qtel.

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“Tel” means telomere and p and q dictates which arm is being referred to.

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This is the result from breakage of a chromosome region with loss or subsequent rejoining in an abnormal combination.

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Structural Abnormalities

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This general type of structural abnormality is based on the no loss or gain of genetic chromatin.

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Balanced Rearrangements

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This general type of structural abnormality is based on the gain or loss of genetic material.

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Imbalanced Rearrangement

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This rearrangement is the change in chromosomal gene order but do not remove or duplicate any of the DNA of the chromosomes.

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Balanced Rearrangement

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This rearrangement is changing the gene dosage of a part of the affected chromosome.

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Imbalanced Rearrangement

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This is the type of rearrangement when a chromosome is translocated or inverted.

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Balanced Rearrangement

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This is the type of rearrangement when a chromosome is deleted or duplicated.

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Imbalanced Rearrangement

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This type of aberration wherein a segment from a chromosome is transferred to another.

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Translocation

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This is a type of aberration wherein a segment of a chromosome is inverted.

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Inversion

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This is a type of aberration wherein a segment of a chromosome is lost.

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Deletion

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This is a type of aberration wherein a segment from one chromosome is transferred to its homologous chromosome.

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Duplication

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These are the reasons why structural aberrations may occur.

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Errors during meiosis, mitosis, or exposure to substances (teratogens).

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These are substances that causes congenital disorders.

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Teratogens

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20
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This structural rearrangement is when a segment of a chromosome is reversed end to end.

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Inversions

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True or False: Inversions occur when 2 chromosomes undergo breakage and rearrange each other.

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False, only single chromosomes undergo inversion within itself.

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True or False: Inversion is inherited, or it can be a mutation that appears in a child whose family has no history.

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True

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True or False: Inversions is undetectable in the structure of a chromosome.

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False, sometimes they can be seen in chromosome structure.

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This type of inversion involves the centromere.

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Pericentric Inversion

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This type of inversion does not include the centromere.

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Paracentric Inversion

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26
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This is one of the most common structural balanced chromosomal variants.

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Chromosome 9 Inversion

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27
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These are cases associated with the inversion of the 9th chromosome.

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Cancer (acute myeloid leukemia), congenital anomalies, infertility, growth retardation, and pregnancy lost.

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This is the type of inversion the 9th chromosome inversion is.

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Pericentric Inversion

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29
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This when a chromosome is deleted or missing.

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Deletion

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30
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These are the two types of chromosome deletion.

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Interstitial and Terminal Deletion

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31
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These are the other terms for the Cri-du-chat Syndrome.

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5P Minus and Lejeune’s Syndrome

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This is the year and the one who discovered the Cri-du-chat Syndrome.

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Jerome Lejeune in 1963

33
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This is the chromosome that gets deleted in the Cri-du-chat Syndome.

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Chromosome 5

34
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This gene in the Cri-du-chat is responsible for DNA functioning.

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HTERT gene

35
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This gene in the Cri-du-chat is responsible for cell adhesion, cell movement, and active NS.

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CTNND2 gene

36
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This genetic aberration has features like high-pitched cat like cry, low birth weight, microcephaly, eyes wide apart, folds of skin over eyelids, palate abnormality, and ear malformity.

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Cri-du-chat Syndrome

37
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This associative disorder is described as having an abnormally small head.

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Microcephaly

38
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This is the deletion of the distal p arm of chromosome 4.

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Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome

39
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This is the year and the one who discovered the Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndome.

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Hirschhorn and Cooper in 1961

40
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This gene in the WH Syndrome is responsible for the distinctive facial appearance and development delay.

41
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This gene in the WH Syndrome is responsible for seizures or other abnormal electric brain activity.

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LETM1 gene

42
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This gene is the WH Syndrome is responsible for dental abnormalities and cleft lip/palate.

43
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This genetic aberration features a broad, flat nasal bridge and high forehead resembling a Greek warrior’s helmet. Also features stunted growth and development, and delayed motor skills.

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Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome

44
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This is the normal form of gene regulation that causes a subset of genes to be expressed from one of the two parental chromosomes.

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Genomic Imprinting

45
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True or False: Only a handful of genes inherit working copies (one from mother and one from father).

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False, most of the genes inherit working copies.

46
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True or False: Imprinting mostly involves one working copy from either parent.

47
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True or False: Genomic imprinting is epigenetically silenced.

48
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This is the reason silencing occurs in a gene through the addition of methyl groups during sperm and egg formation.

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DNA Methylation

49
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This genetic aberration is due to the absence of the chromosome region 15.

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Angelman Syndrome

50
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True or False: The Angelman Syndrome is due to the mutation of the UBE2A gene in the paternal chromosome 15 (q12)

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False, the mutation is on the UBE3A gene in the maternal chromosome 15 (q12).

51
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This is the year and the one who discovered the Angelman Syndrome.

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Harry Angelman in 1965

52
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This genetic aberration features delayed development, movement/balance disorder, behavioral uniqueness, and speech impairment.

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Angelman Syndrome

53
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True or False: Prader-Willi Syndrome occurs from the absence of the maternal genes from chromosome 15q11-q15.

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False, it occurs from the absence of the paternal gene chromosome 15q11-q13.

54
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This is the year and the one who discovered the Prader Willi Syndrome.

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Prof. A. Prader, A. Labhart, and H. Willi in 1956

55
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This genetic aberration features hypotonia, hypogonadism, obesity, and CNS & endocrine gland dysfunction.

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Prader-Willi Syndrome

56
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This associative disorder is described as a decrease in muscle tone due to muscle dystrophy or cerebral palsy.

57
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This associative disorder is described to occur when the body’s sex glands produce little to no hormones.

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Hypogonadism

58
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This type of ring chromosome is the result from breakage and reunion of a single chromosome with loss of chromosomal material outside the break points.

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Double Strand Breaks

59
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This type of ring chromosomes is described when one or both telomeres may join to form a ring without significant loss of materials.

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Telomere Dysfunction

60
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This type of ring chromosome also occurs when a broken end of a telomere fuses together to form a ring.

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Telomere Dysfunction

61
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This genetic aberration features seizures and intellectual disability caused by epilepsy.

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Ring Chromosome 14 Syndrome

62
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True or False: Ring Chromosome 14 Syndrome is caused by a double strand break.

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False, it is caused by a telomere dysfunction.

63
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This a type of structural aberration occurs due to a partial trisomy for only part of a chromosome.

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Duplication

64
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True or False: Duplications is only present during cells that undergo mitosis.

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False, both mitosis and meiosis can form unbalanced insertions or unequal crossovers due to duplication.

65
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This type of structural aberration arises from either abnormal division of the centromeres.

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Isochromosomes

66
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This type of structural aberration results in each daughter cells duplicates either p arm or q arm.

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Isochromosomes

67
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True or False: Isochromosomes undergo vertical division.

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False, they undergo horizontal division.

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This type of structural aberration involves the movement of a chromosomal segment from one location to another of the same or another chromosome.

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Insertions

69
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This type of structural aberration occurs when a chromosome breaks into two pieces and each piece reunites with another non-homologous chromosome.

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Translocation

70
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True or False: A balanced translocation happens when a chromatin is neither lost nor gained in the exchange.

71
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True or False: An unbalanced translocation happens when there is a loss or gain of chromatin material that results in complete monosomy or trisomy of a chromosome segment.

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False, the loss/gain would only produce a partial trisomy or monosomy.

72
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This is an example of an unbalanced translocation wherein majority of chromosome 21 is attached to chromosome 14.

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Down Syndrome

73
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This is a type of translocation wherein parts of two chromosomes breaks off and reattaches to each other’s broken ends.

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Reciprocal Translocation

74
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This type of structural aberration occurs when the centromeres of two acrocentric chromosomes fuse to generate one large chromosome.

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Robertsonian Translocation

75
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True or False: Translocation is when genetic material is added from another chromosome while insertion is genetic material swapped with another chromosome.

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False, insertion is genetic material added to another chromosome and translocation is swapped.

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