Genetics Flashcards
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Pattern: Lens dislocation upward
Marfan
Pattern: Lens dislocation downward
Homocystinuria
Cardiac problems assoc with Marfan
aortic root dilation, aortic rupture, mitral valve prolapse
- Fibrillin on chromosome 15
Marfan
- TFBR1/2
Marfan 2 and Loeys-Dietz
NF criteria: 2/7
- > 6 cafe au lait >5mm prepub, >15mm prepub
- 2+ neurofibromas
- 2+ lisch nodules of iris
- OPG
- inguinal or axillary freckling
- sphenoid wing dysplasia or thinning of long bone cortex
- 1st degree relative with NR
Pattern: coarse facies, corneal clouding, organomegaly, cogntive loss
Hurler features
- alpha-1 iduronidase
Hurler genetics
Muscle weakness and progression pattern of DMD
symmetric proximal symmetric myopathy, symptoms prior to 5, can’t walk by 13
Majority of DMD mutation
deletion and point mutations
Pattern: coarse facies, hump on back, short stature, cognitive loss, gibbus organomegaly, clear cornea
Features of Hunter
Phenotype of x-linked dominant
Rett - girls only because boys die
IHP of Hunter
x-linked recessive
Gene mutation in MELAS
tRNA genes
Genetic mutation type in myotonic dystrophy
trinucleotide repeats
Genetic mutation type in Fragile X
trinucleotide repeats
Pattern: puffy hands and feet in baby
Turner
Pattern: horseshoe/ectopic kidney, hearing loss, hypothyroidism
Turner
Hormonal abnormality of Turner
hypothydroidism
Congenital heart disease in Turner
Coarctation, bicuspid aortic valve, hypoplastic left heart
Late onset heart disease in Turner syndrome
aortic dissection (increased during pregnancy), HTN
Genetics of Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
4p deletion
Pattern: severe retardation, cleft lip/palate, FTT CHD, microcephaly, flat nasal bridge with high arched eyebrows
Wolf-Hirschorn
Cri du chat syndrome
5p delection