Genetics of Complex Disease Flashcards

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What are the 4 types of Genetics of Disease?

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Single Gene Mutation
Multifactorial/Complex
Chromosomal
Enviromental

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Describe what Single Gene Mutation is?

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Rare, mutations in a gene to do with structural proteins and enzymes

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Describe what Multifactorial is?

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More than 1 Gene is affected, the Gene expression is on or off

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Describe what Chromosomal changes are?

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100’s of genes affected, gain or loss of a chromosome

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Describe what Environmental factors mean?

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Very common, could be viral/bacterial infections

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What is the Definition of Multifactoral Inheritence?

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Inheritance and expression of a phenotype determined by the action of multiple genes and multiple loci

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What are the key features of Multifactoral Inheritance?

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  • Gene contributes to small amount of final phenotype
  • Multiple genes not recessive/dominant
  • multiple genes to segregate in Mendelian manner NOT PHENOTYPE
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What are Monogenic Diseases?

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Single strong high penetrate phenotype, rare and other genes affect phenotype severity

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What are Polygenic diseases?

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Very common, low penetrant phenotypes, not dominated by one gene, pedigrees comple and enviroment reduces pentrance

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What does Pentrance mean?

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Fraction of cases carrying a given gene that manifests in a specific phenotype

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What would be the effect or a Fully Pentrant single gene?

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No effect of other genes or enviroment

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What would be the effect of low-pentrance?

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Genes along with other genetic factors determine a persons susceptibility to disease

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What would be the effect of Multifactorial?

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Genetics determines susceptibility but has low penetrance e.g multiple sclerosis

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What are the 2 Factors that cause any trait?

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Genetics

Enviroment

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What are some Examples of Polygenic complex disease?

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Hypertension
Obesity
Diabetes
Chrons
Cancer
Autism
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Why study genetics of multifactorial disease?

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Identify individual with increased risk of disease
Identify targets for better therapy
Untangle complex gene-enviro interactions

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Why is Complex inheritance an underlying factor for most common human diseases?

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Multifaceted interactions of genotypes at multiple loci

Environmental factors that trigger acceleate or worsen disease

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What percentage of the population have complex disorders?

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60

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What is Polygenic Inheritance?

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Traits quantified by measurement

More than 2 genes contributing to phenotype

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Give an Example of Polygenic Inheritance?

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Adult Male height

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How is Adult Male height measured?

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Median of Population
Bell curbe
Quantitive traits at 180 genetic loci

22
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What Methods allow to study multifactorial traits?

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Threshold Model
Recurrence Risk
Liability Threshold

23
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Describe Threshold model?

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Frequency of disorder of relatives compared to frequency of disorder with population

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Describe Recurrence risk?

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Estimates risk that disease will recur

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Describe Liability threshold?

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Measures disease state of indiv, when alleles push distrubtion towards threshold termed Risk/Susceptibility alleles

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How do we know a complex disease has a genetic component?

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Heritability - proportion of disease variation, defined as number between 0 and 1

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What number = High genetic influence?

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1

28
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What number = NO genetic infulence?

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0

29
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What are monozygotic twins?

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Identical - single fertilization

30
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What are dizygotic twins?

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Fraternal - independent fertilization events, share half there genes

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What is Concordance?

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Probability that twins will both have the disease if 1 has the disease

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What type of Twins have a higher Concordance with diseases?

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Monozygotic

33
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How much Familial Risk is accounted in Familial Breast cancer?

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< 30 %

34
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What is Autism?

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Great difficulty in communicating, forming relationships - strongly influenced by genetics

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What is an Allele?

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One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene

36
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What is a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) ?

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DNA sequence variation that occurs when a single nucleotide in the genome sequence is altered at same genetic location between different chromosomes

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Describe SNP?

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Variation must occur in >1 % of the population, act as biological markers - help identify genes associated with disease

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How can SNP’s be useful?

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Used to track inheritance of diseases in families

39
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What are SNP’s used as markers to map?

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Haplotypes

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What are Haplotypes?

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Disease-linked genomic loci physically linked on a chromosome and segregate together

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What is GWAS?

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genome-wide association study

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Describe Chromosomal disorders?

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Usually de novo can be inherited
Thousands of genes involved
Multiple organs affected at multiple stages

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What is an Aneuploidy?

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Presence of an Abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell

44
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What are the Sex chromosomes?

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Triple X syndrome - 47 XXX
Klinefelter syndrom 47 XXY
XYY syndrome - 47 XYY
Turner Syndrome 45 X0

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What are the Autosomal chromosomes?

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Trisomy 21 - down syndrome
Trisomy 18 - edward syndrome
Trisomy 13 - Patau syndrome

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What is DiGeorge syndrome?

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Deletion of band 11.2 on long arm of chr 22 , 45 genes

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What are some Symptons of DiGeorge syndrome?

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Congenital cardiac defects, facial dysmorphia, T-cell

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What is the Cause for T21 Down syndrome?

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Mieotic non-disjunction

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What is non-disjunction?

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Failure of chromatids to seperate into 2 chromosomes

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What is the Pedigree, Traits and Underlying cause for Mendelian?

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Predictable inheritance pattern
Independent action of single gene
Mutation in this gene necessary for phenotype

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What is the Pedigree, Traits and Underlying cause for Complex?

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Familial clustering but not predictable inheritance pattern
Interactions between multiple genetic and enviro factors
Genetic variations increase susceptibility