16- Sex-linked and Non Traditional Inheritance Flashcards
(32 cards)
3 specific rules of inactivation
Random (can be either X)
Fixed (All descendents of a cell have same X inactive)
Incomplete (85% not active)
X maintains its own inactivation in three ways
- Kind of coats itself with RNA, walls itself off
- Methylation of genes is high (tunring off promoters)
- Histone Deacetylation= tight dense Barr body
Female inheritance of X linked recessive is similar to _____ in regards that______
Autosomal recessive, need two bad copies to be affected
X-linked recessive heterozygotes will express the mutation in _____ and their normal cells will_______
50% of cells, compensate
X linked recessive, affected father, normal mother
100% daughter carriers, and 100% sons normal
Hemophilia A is a defect in ____ on chromosome ______
Factor VIII, X
therapy for hemophilia
Factor VIII infusions
what % activity of Factor VII to be considered affected by asymptomatic , what mutation is common for this
25%, missense
what is the reason for the occurrence of hemophilia
Large Gene- takes more hits
early diagnostic indicator of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Creatine Kinase 20x normal limit, pseudohypertrophy of calves
milder form of DMD with mildly altered dystrophin and very slow progression
Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Normal vision is considered _______
trichromatic
Not seeing one of the colors is_____
dichromatic
Red-green color blindess is ______inherited
X-linked
Reason for red-green color blindness
unequal crossing over of red and green opsins which are adjacent on the X chromosome
Females twice as likely to be affected as males in _____
X linked Dominant Inheritance
Kidneys can’t reabsorb phosphate
Abnormal ossification, bones bend and distort
Hypophosphatemic rickets
Abnormal skin pigmentation and teeth
Neurological and ocular abnormalities
Males lost in utero
Incontinentia pigmenti
Autism, ataxia, mental retardation
Some males survive to term
Rett syndrome
Difference between LHON and MERRF
MERRF is heteroplasmic meaning people with severe and mild forms within the same family
Sherman Paradox
Sisters of NTM are less likely to be affected than are granddaughters of NTM
Fragile X expands only in ____, meaning that
female meiosis, offspring of transmitting male have same number as father
Fragile X:
Normal copy #, abnormal, NTM
6 to 50, >230, 50 to 230
Name 3 XLD diseases
Hypophosphatemic Rickets
Incontinentia Pigmenti
Rett Syndrome