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penetrance

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the P that disease will appear in an individual when disease allele is present

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pleiotropy

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one gene has many functions

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maternal effect

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mother’s genotype determines offspring’s phenotype rather than offspring’s genotye

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allelic series

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collections of variants that lead to a gradation of possible phenotypes
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a wild type allele and all the mutant alleles of a gene that appear in a real population

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heterogeneity

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different mutations - same phenotype

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allelic heterogeneity

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mutations in same gene

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locus heterogeneity

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mutations in different gene

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expressivity

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range of symptoms that are possible

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haplotype

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combination of alleles present on same chromosome homolog

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polygenic disease

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multiple genes cause disease through combined action of disease alleles

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quantitative trait loci

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genes with major contributions to phenotype

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transgenic rescue

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add wild type allele to mutatnt phenotype disappear

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knock-in

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generate same sequence change in wild type mice and induce same phenotype

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epigenetics

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the study of heritable changes that occur without a modification in DNA sequence of the genes

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canonical imprinting event

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parent-of-origin specific DNA methylation - primary imprint marker that directly or indirectly controls most imprinted genes

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complementation test

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cross mutants to each other to see if they are in the same gene or different genes

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loss of function mutation

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mutation production of no or less proteins or a protein with reduced or no activity

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gain of function mutation

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mutation production of more proteins or an extended expression pattern (new time and or place), or a protein with an increased activity or new function

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amorph

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deletion / none

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hypomorph

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reduced function

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antimorph

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antagonistic (but LOF morph)

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hypermorph

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increased function

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neomorph

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novel

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exons

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coding regions

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introns
non coding regions
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COI
construct of interest
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transgene
exogenous gene added into experimental system that can be expressed under its own promoter or a different promoter
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knock out
delete a gene/promoter or a critical portion of it
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knock down
delete a small portion of gene / promoter
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knock in
add construct to genome
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knock down marker
replaces a small part of the gene / promoter
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knock out marker
replaces all or a great part of the endogenous gene / promoter
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knock in marker
DNA is fused to a marker
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HDR
homology directed repair
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phenocopy effects
effects comparable to mutant phenotypes but not due to mutations
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phenocopy
environmental induced - non heriditary phenotype (identical to genotype determined phenotype of another individual)
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haploinsufficiency
dominant phenotype in diploid organism that are heterozygous for LOF allele
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heteroallelic combination
presence of two different mutant alleles at the same locus
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epistasis
one mutation masks the phenotype of the other mutation
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mutations arise by
deficiencies of gene through loss of chromosome region or at breakpoints of inversions or translocations
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balancer chromosomes
keep homozygous lethal or sterile mutations from being lost in a population (they are homozyous too and have a marker)
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saturated genetic screen
uncover every gene that is involved in a particular phenotype in a given species
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synergistic enhancement
more than addition of two phenotypes
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universally conserved genes
those that can be found in all organisms
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synteny
conservation of blocks of order within two sets of chromosomes that are being compared with each other or preserved order of genes on chromosomes of related species which results from descent from common ancester
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fitness
probable genetic contribution of an individual to succeeding generations
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oligos
oligonucleotides - short single strands of synthetic DNA or RNA
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dominance
manifestation of how the alleles of a single gene interact in the heterozygote
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haplosufficient
one copy of the wild type allele (P) is enough to carry out the function
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auxotrophic mutants
cannot syntehsize cellular components from inorganic nutrients - complex nutrients need to be supplied in order for the cell to grow
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suppressor
mutant allele of a gene that reverses the effect of a mutation in another gene
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hypostatic
the overriden mutation in epistatic interactions
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negative/antagonistic epistasis
Occurs when the two-locus epistatic interaction provides a combined fitness that is smaller than the simple sum of each of their own
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positive/synergistic epistasis
Occurs when the two-locus epistatic interaction enhance the fitness of the individual more than the simple sum of each of their own
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synthetic lethality
two genes have a synthetic lethal relationship if mutants in either gene are viable but the double mutation is lethal
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complementation test
checking if mutants are at the same allelic locus
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Tandem duplications
: duplicated regions are located adjacent to each other
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Insertional duplication
extra copies are located somewhere else in the genome
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Segmental duplications
: big duplication units ranging from 10 to 50kB - most of this duplication are dispersed but some may be in tandem
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duplication loop (meiosis)
failure of pairing between the normal segment of chromosome and its corresponding homolog duplicated segment
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CNV
copy number variation - human differs in the number of copies of parts of individual genes, whole genes, or gene clusters
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orthologs
genes inherited from a common ancester (same locus, different species)
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paralogs
genes arose from duplication events - at different genetic loci in the same organism
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macrosynteny
larger ranges relationships
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microsynteny
metabolic clusters of similarity
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genetic redundancy
implies that two or more genes carry out the same biological function and that a mutation in one of these genes has little or not effect on the overall phenotype - since the other would function as a back up copy
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neo-functionalization
when a gene acquires a new function after a gene duplication event
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subfunctionalization
neutral mutation process in which each paralog retains a subset of its original ancestral function
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Aneuploidy
: changes in parts of chromosome set
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Euploidy (aberrant)
: organisms that have multiples of the normal chromosome set
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nullisomy monosomy disomy trisomy
2n-2 2n-1 n+1 2n+1
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Gene balance
: the majority of proteins function in complexes
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ways chromosomal structure can be altered (4)
deletion duplication inversion translocation
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paracentric inversions
do not involve the centromere (switch i think - like BC is normal, CB = paracentric)
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pericentric inversions
involve the centromere
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Intragenic deletion:
small deletions within a gene Usually inactivate the gene and have same effects than other null mutations
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Multigenic deletions:
several genes are missing More severe consequences: even heterozygote for such deletions may not survive
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Psuedodominance :
recessive alleles seem to show dominance bc of deletion of dominant alleles
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Deletions in meiosis :
failure of pairing between the normal segment of chromosome and its corresponding homolog deleted segment deletion loop
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Autopolyploidy:
multiple chromosome sets originated from same species - intraspecific
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Allopolyploidy:
multiple chromosome sets originated from different species - ineterspecific
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Cell non-autonomous :
gene product is not required in cells in which it is expressed
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Cell autonomous :
gene product is required in cells in which it is expressed

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