Flashcards in Gnetic basis of complex inheritance Deck (20)
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Mendelian Inheritance (3)
Law of dominance
Law of segregation
Law of independent assortment
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Non- mendelian inheritance
Does not fit in with Mendelian inheritance due to gene conversion and the ability of an intermediate phenotype
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Anticipation
Eg triple repeat expansion
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Extracellular inheritance
Eg mitochondrial DNA
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Genomic printing
Variants from parents
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Incomplete penetrance
Environmental factor
Genetic modifiers
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Penetrance
Frequency with which trait is manifested by individuals carrying the gene
% with trait (mutant)/% with trait (wild) = RISK
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Genetic modifiers
Genes that have small quantitative effects on level of expression of another gene - many involve polymorphism
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Genomic imprinting
Genes expressed from only 1 chromosome so is parent of origin dependent and there is a higher risk of causing genetic disease
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Epigenetic modifications
Heritable changes in gene function not explained by changes in DNA
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Cytosine ( mC)
Induces structural adaption of chromosomal region so as to continue altered activity states
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Anticipation - triple repeat
Disease presents at earlier age and/or increasing severity with age eg Huntingtons and myotonic dystrophy
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Genetic mechanisms
Deletion, point mutation, imprinting error and uniparental disomy
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Imprinting error (P)
Loss of maternal expression causing Angleman syndrome - epilepsy, awkward gait and retardation
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Imprinting error (M)
Prader -wili syndrome - hypotonia short and obese
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Uniparental disomy
Inheritance of a chromosome pair from one parental origin
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Gyogenic
2 Maternal
Mass of embryo and ovarian teratoma
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Androgenic
2 Paternal
Mass of placenta and Hydatidiform male
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What does mitochondrial inheritance effect?
Tissue with high metabolic demand
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