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Cystic Fibrosis

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CFTR, autosomal recessive
1 in 2000 - 2500 white children

progressive pulmonary disease, exocrine pancratic insufficiency, obstructie azoospermia, elevated sweat chloride concentration, growth failure, meconium ileus

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Neurofibromatosis

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NF1, autosomal dominant
penetrance: 100% in adults; <50% in children

cafe au lait spots, neurofibromas; Lisch nodules (hamartomas) in the iris; mental retardation

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Turner syndrome

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45, X

short stature, swelling, broad chest, webbed neck, low hairline, low-set ears
cognitive deficits: visuospatial, mathematical & memory
typically sterile, amenorrhea (non-working ovaries)

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Edwards syndrome

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Trisomy 18

Intrauterine growth retardation
Hypertonicity - clenched hands, narrow hips
CNS abnormalities - posterior fossa anomalities, severe intellectual disabilities, seizures
Congenital heart disease

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Patau syndrome

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Trisomy 13

Normal or deficient growth
CNS abnormalities - holoprosencephaly, severe intellectual disabilities
Facial clefts, polydactyly, renal dysplasia, congenital heart disease, omphalocele, dermal defects

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Klinefelter syndrome

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47 XXY

Tall, hypogonadism, underdeveloped secondary sexual char., gynecomastia, usually in fertile, language impairment

1/1000 live births
50% of cases = patetnal meiosis I failure of recombination in pseudoautosomal regions

15% of cases = mosaicism (46, XY / 47, XXY)

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47 XYY syndrome

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Indistinguishable physically / mentally from normal males

1/1000 live births
inc. risk of behavioral & educational problems; delayed speech / language

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

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Duplication of 17p11.2 which contains the gene for peripheral myelin protein-22 (PMP-22)

weakness of the foot and lower leg muscles
foot deformities (hammer toes)
weakness & muscle atrophy of the hands (late in the disease course)
all forms of the disease affect peripreal nerves.

*of note, due to dosage differences, deletion in the same region of chr 17p leads to a different peripheral myelin disease HNLPP (p. 97)

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List the various mechanisms that lead to Down Syndrome.

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  1. Meiosis I nondisjunction
  2. Robertsonian Translocation
  3. Isochromosome
  4. Mosaic Down Syndrome
  5. Partial trisomy 21
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Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome

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del(22q11.2)

cleft palate, lateral nasal buildup, cardiac septal defects
“Contiguous Gene Syndrome”

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DiGeorge syndrome

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del(22q11.2)

absent or hypoplastic thymus (T-cell abnormalities = a lot of infections) & parathyroids, congenital heart disease (outflow tract)

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List at least 4 contiguous gene syndromes (as discussed in class)

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DiGeorge syndrome
Prader-Willi syndrome
Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome
Angleman syndrome

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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

genotype…

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46, XX t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) (95% of patients)

Reciprocal Translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22.
Philadelphia chromosome: BCR gene from chrom. 22 and the ABL gene from chrom. 9 fuse. BCR-ABL fusion gene is a tyrosine kinase.

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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

pathophys…

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Cancer of the white blood cells
unregulated growth of myeloid cells in the bone marrow
accumulation of these cells in the blood

treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (imatinib, gleevec)

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For DiGeorge syndrome remember CATCH-22

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Cardiac abnormality
Abnormal facies
Thymic aplasia
Cleft palate
Hypocalcemia/Hypoparathyroidism
Chromosome 22  del(22q11)
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Beckwith-Wiedmann syndrome

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Uniparental Disomy for a portion of chr 11

large at birth, enlarged tongue, protrusion of the umbilicus
severe hypoglycemia, malignant neoplasms of kidney, adrenal and liver

see p. 79; also a focus of “ghost in your genes” video recommended by Dr. Johnson

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Huntington Disease - genetics

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HD allele - expansion of a polyglutamine encoding repeat (CAG) in exon 1 of the HD gene
normal allele has 10-26 CAG repeats
mutant allele has >36 CAG repeats

Age at disease onset inversely proportional to # CAG repeats in HD gene
Reduced penetrance for 36-41 CAG repeats in HD gene
80% juvenile pts inherit from father
Mean age of onset is 35-44 years
Median survival after diagnosis is 15-18 years

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Huntington Disease - clinical presentation

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Progressive motor, cognitive and psychiatric abnormaities
Motor: voluntary and involuntary movement disturbances; Chorea
Cognitive: language (later onset), behavioral social disinhibition, aggression, outbursts, apathy, sexual deviation, increased appetite
Psychiatric: personality changes, affective psychosis, schizophrenia

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Ellis-van Creveld syndrome

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Autosomal recessive
Ex. of the Founder Effect in Old Order Amish populations

short-limbed dwarfism, polydactyly, abnormal nails & teeth, heart defects

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Type I Tyrosinemia

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Autosomal recessive
Ex. of Founder Effect in French-Canadian region: Lac Saint Jean in Quebec

Hepatic failure, renal tubular dysfunction - deficiency in fumarylacetoacetase (enzyme in the degradation pathway of Tyrosine)
1/685 in Lac Saint Jean region of Quebec
1/100,000 in other parts of Quebec, Sweden and Norway

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Osteogenesis Imperfecta genetics…

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Type-1 collagen deficiency (most common)
8 types in all from different genetic mutations
Most common mutations in COL1A1 or COL1A2 autosomal dominant; 60-100% de novo mutations
(some autosomal recessive versions exist)

1/20,000 live births

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Sickle Cell Anemia genetics…

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SNP of Beta-globin gene Glu6Val
Beta-globin gene is located at 11q15.4

Confers Heterozygous Advantage against malaria
Common in regions with more malaria

*(E6V glutamic acid at position 6 changed to valine; GAG -> GTG; A to T mutation

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MODY-3

HNF1-alpha mutation

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Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young - 3
most common (70%) of all MODY's
HNF1-alpha is a homeobox trxn factor (important for differentiaton of beta cells)
Different mutations within the HNF1-alpha gene lead to variable expressivity of onset age
is a considered a type 2 diabetes but insulin dependence eventually develops late (after many years with disease, beta cells deteriorate)

treat with sulfonylureas

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Duchene Muscular Dystrophy

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X-linked recessive
Gower maneuver
giant calves
muscle wasting, extra connective tissue
progressive loss of respiratory function (diaphragm)
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Becker muscular dystrophy

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less severe - point (in frame mutation)

same gene location (Xp) as duchenne m.d.

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Achondroplasia

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autosomal dominant
chr. 4, fibroblast growth factor receptor
FGFRc - inhibits proliferation of chondrocytes
mutation leads to shortening of the long bones –> short stature
1 in 25,000