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All DNA technologies rely on what?

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DNA & hybridization

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If you heat DNA molecule, what will happen to DNA strand?

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Denature

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what happens to a denatured DNA molecule if you cool it down?

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Renature

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What is nucleic acid hybridization?

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Heat and denature, cool and renature, can combine two different DNA strands

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Name a few different types of lables

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radioactive, fluorescent, enzymatic, etc.

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What is the function of the probe?

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Detect target DNA with sequence we are interested in

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One strand of probe will bind to what in hybridization assay?

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one strand of target DNA (they are complementary to each other)

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What is non-productive in Hybriization?

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two probes reanneal with each other and two DNA strands reanneal

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What do you want to maximize in hybridization?

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probe-target binding

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What is hybridization Stringency

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how “strict” you are when you allow hybridization to occur. the degree we tolerate or don’t tolerate mismatches

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the higher the stringency, the:

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fewer the mismatches we tolerate

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when would you want to use low stringency?

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finding genes part of gene family, that are similar but no identical

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Usually in diagnostics, what kind of stringency is used

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high

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how do you control stringency?

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temperature, salt concentration, denaturing agents

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The higher the temperature

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the higher the stringency

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the lower the salt concetnration

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the higher the stringency

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the higher the concentration of denaturing agents

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the higher the stringency

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Why is DNA preferred as probe over RNA

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more stable than RNA

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main application of northern blotting

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gene expression

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why is southern blotting used more than western for MDs?

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for western have to get protein sample - ex: if they have liver problem difficult and invasive to get liver sample

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Detect DNA bands of a ____ _____ and determine their size

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specfici sequence

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Detect DnA bands of a speficif sequence and determine their ___

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size

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What does semi-quantitative mean?

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the intensity of the band refelcts the amount of the target DNA prsent

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Southern blotting can tell us what about the DNA (generally?)

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size & how much DNA

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DNA samples from different tissues, skin & liver and ran on gel, would southern blot show differences b/w the tissues?
No, genomic DNA doesn't change from tissue to tissue
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Would you use Southern blotting to look at differences b/w tissue?
No, genomic DNA doesn't change b/w tissues
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What are southern blots used for?
discriminate b/w alleles - get genotype of pt
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How is DNA separated on for southern blot?
size
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RFLP stands for what
restriction fragment length polymorphism
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What is an RFLP
polymorphism in a restriction site in the genomic DNA
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what is a polymorphism
sequence variant b/w individuals (at least 1% of pop. must have variant for it to be polymorphism)
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What does SNP stand for
single nucleotide polymorphism
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What is a SNP
single base change b/w people
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vast majority of polymorphisms are what?
SNPs
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Most RFLPs are a SNP within what?
a palindrome
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Southern blotting has largely been replaced by what
PCR
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When you get a map, pay attention to where the probe
hybridizes to
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When do you do southern blot on alleles you will always see
two - we all have two alleles
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Before you use a RFLP with a mutatnt you have to know what?
where the mutation is
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What is pedigree specific when you are looking at RFLP?
where the mutation is. it will be different b/w different families and pedigrees
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Just because husband and wife has the same allele does not mean
they both have the disease
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When doing a RFLP problem pay special attention to where what is and why?
probe - that will be the only part that will appear on the blot. so even if restriction enzymes cut multiple sites, the only sites that will be shown are where the probe binds
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For males how many alleles would they have for x linked diseases?
1 - males only have one x chrom.
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a deletion or insertion b/w two restriction sites can cause an
RFLP
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a chromosomal rearrangement can cause a
RFLP
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Name all the ways you can get RFLP
a chromosomal rearrangement can cause a , a deletion or insertion b/w two restriction sites can cause an creation or loss of restriction site due to SNP or mutation
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What is cephalohematoma
lump under the skin on scalp
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What are the two main types of hemophilia?
A & B
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What is the most common type of hemophilia?
A
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Where is the mutation in Hemophilia A?
Factor VIII gene (F8 gene)
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Where is mutation in hemophilia B?
Factor IX (F9 gene)
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What is mode of inheritance for hemophilia?
X-linked
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what is the ultimate cause of hemophilia? what causes lack of blood clotting
fibrin isn't produced
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Symptoms: prolonged bleeding times, easy brusing, hemorrahge into joins and muscle is what disease?
hemophilia
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What does hemophilia mild peresnt as?
Not as bad, not as much bleeding
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What does hemophilia severe present as?
bleeding all the time, need blood transfusions
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In the milder form of hemophilia, why is it more mild?
residual protein function
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In the severe version of hemophilia, why is it more severe?
little or no protein function
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What kind of mutation would lead to severe hemophelia?
nonesense, frameshift, complete deletion
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What kind of mutation would lead to milder form of hemophilia?
missense (single aa changes)
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What is the treatment for hemophilia A?
transfusion of purified/recombinant F8
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40% of severe hemophilia A cases are cuased by what?
inversion
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How do inversions occur usually in hemophilia?
homologous recominbation b/w repetitve lements proximal to the F8 gene
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Why can you not use a PCR to detect the inversions that cause hemophilia?
All the exons are still present
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Why does southern blot give different fragement sizes for hemophilia?
inversion changes distances b/w restriction sites, so sizes in fragemtns are different
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If blots are fainter on southern blot, what does that say?
less DNA | complete deletion mutation - they only have one copy of gene compared to other individuals
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Less target DNA results in a:
weaker signal (bands will be lighter)
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The lane at the bottom of southern blot is used as a
control | ensures they loaded equal amount for each pt, shows that if there are differences on DNA they are real differences
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We use RFLPs to track muation ins:
family
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What is used to track muations in a family?
RFLPs
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What is the principle idea for RFLP analysis?
linkage - the part of mutation will be inherited together
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The probe will hybridize to ___ alleles
BOTH | with and without mutation
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The RFLP is present in _____ at large
population
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RFLPs are always what?
family specific

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