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what is population geneitcs

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study of distrubituion and change in frequence of alleles within populations

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what are different factors that could cause change in frequencies of disease or keep constant

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genetic - mutation, reproduction, selection
societal - migration, mate selection
enviornmental - geography

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Hypotonia, cherry red spot at fovea centralis, earlky age of onset, neural degeneration, death at 5 years is what disease

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Tay-sachs disease

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what is tay-sachs disease caused by

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defecieicny of HexA enzyme

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what population of people is incidence rate highest in tay-sachs disease

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in ashkenazi jews, french canadians, cajuns

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what gene is mutated in tay0sachs disease

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HEXA

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what enzyme is deficient in tay-sachs disease

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Hexosiminidase A (HexA)

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What does HexA stand for

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Hexosiminidase A, an enzyme

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what accumulates in tay-sachs

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GM2 gangliosides

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what organelle is issues in tay sachs

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lysosome

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GM2 gangliosides accumulate in what

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ganglion cells

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what happens to fovea in tay sachs

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stays the same color, its red b/c of the vascular choroid layer under it

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what happens to macula in tay sachs

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it gets lighter, milky or pale gray

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when else would you have a cherry red spot besides tay sachs

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other lysosomal storage diseases like gaucher

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what does HEXA encode

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alpha subunit of HexA

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what subunits does HEX A have

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alpha and beta

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what 3 genes are important for the enzyme hexa

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HEXA
HEXB
GM2A

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If HEXB subunit is mutated what disease

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Sandhoff

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If GM2A is mutated what is the diseasea

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activator deficiency

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What is GM2 Gangliosidosis Type 1

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tay sachs

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what is GM2Gangliosidosis Type 2

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Sandhoff

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what is GM2Gangliosidosis AB variant

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activator deficiency

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two alpha subunits from HEXA gene that come together is what enzyme

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Hex S

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two beta subunits that come together from HEXB gene is what

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Hex B

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alpha and beta subunit that comes together from HEXA & HEXB is what
Hex A
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what is the most common mutation that causes tay-sachs in jewish population
4 bp insertion that results in frameshift
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what does the 4 bp insertion result in to cause tay-sachs
frameshift
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what does the 4 bp insertion result in to cause tay-sachs
frameshift
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what organelle is affected in gaucher disease
lysosome
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what population is found at high frequency for gaucher disease
ashkenazi jews
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what is MOI for gaucher disease
AR
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what gene has mutation in gaucher
GBA
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what enzyme does GBA encode
beta glucocerebrosidase
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what accumulates in gaucher disease
glucoerebroside
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what become lipid filled and enlarged in gaucher disease
macrophages
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the total number of allels in a population is ____ the number of indiivduals in a population
twice
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what is genotype frequency equation
number of individuals with a defined genotype/total number of individuals in the population
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what is allele frequency equation
number of copies of an allele in pop/total number of allels in pop
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frequency of allele =
2x homozygote number + 1x heterozygote number/ 2xpopulation
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you can only use counting formular when you have what
the genes, you need ro have the alleles to calculate it
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what does hardy-weinberg law describe
relationshionship b/w allele and genotype frequencies
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p + q = ?
1
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homozygous normal AA = ?
p^2
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homozygous mutant aa = ?
q^2
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heterozygous Aa = ?
2pq
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what is the hardy-weinberg formular
P^2 + 2pg + q^2 = 1
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What are the 3 assumptions of hardy-weinberg law
large population random mating constant gene frequency
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if hardy weinberg is true what happens to allele frequencies
they stay constant
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is allele frequencies stay constant it is what
at hardy weinberg equilibrium
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if you are talking about the incidence rate of a disease being 1 in like 300,000 what is the incidence rate?
q^2
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are populations pretty close to being at hardy weinberg equilibrium?
yes pretty close
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what is in incidence rate of the disease?
q^2
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what is stratified mating
within bigger population are subgroups - can e racial, religious, or cultural - people in the subgroups mate more often than in the larger population
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what is affect of stratified mating
if there are mutatnt allele in subpopulation they will stay at higher frequency in subpopulation than they are at in the larger population
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what is assortive mating
mate chosen because of a particular trait, like language, intelligence, stature, skin color, athletic ability
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what is positive assorative mating
mates chosen b/c they share similar characteristics
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what is negative assoritve mating
mates are chosen b/c they have dissimilar characteristics
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is positive or negative assoritve mating more common
positive
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what are the exceptions to random mating
stratified mating assortive mating consanguineous mating
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what example is assortative mating resulting in increased genetic diseases
homozygous achondroplasia genetic deafness genetic blindness
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what is consanguineous mating affect
rare recessive alleles much more likely to become homozygous than expected by random chance
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methemoglobinemia does what
hemoglobin doesn't properly deliver oxygen - blue people!
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what is an example of consanguineous mating
blue people of kentucky
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what is genetic drift
seen in small populations, allele frequencies fluctuate b/c when people with rare genotypes mate with eachother it will have more signifi ant impact on allele frequency (b/c there are less alleles)
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what are exceptions to large population
genetic drift | founder effect
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what is the founder effect
start off with big population and some people move somewhere else, over time as the population increases the larger population has same allele frequency as the founding population, and if the founders carried mutant allele its shown greater frequency in the new population
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what are examples of founder effect
tay sachs, gaucher: ashkenazics jews maple syrup urin disease: pennsylvania mennonites huntington disease: maracaibo venezuela (sailor that had a lot of kids when he visited and he passed on huntington disease)
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what is exception to constant allele frequency
``` gene flow (migration) heterozygote advantage selection against mutant alleles due to loss of fitness ```
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what is gene flow
when a mutation arises it will spread slowly - radially - across its site of origin
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what is heterozygote advtange
carriers of disease has increased advantage over both type of homozygous normal genotypes - it provides survival advantage to heterozygotes and a selection for the mutant alleles
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what does heterozygote advtange result in
increased frequency of disease alleles in a pop
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what are examples of heterozygote advtange
sickle-cell | alpha and beta thalassemia
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what is selection against mutant alleles due to loss of fitness
mutant alleles that cuase loss of fitness are only exposed to selection whent heir phenotype is expressed AD alleles are always expressed and selected against unless there is non-penetrance so... seletion against mutant alleles will vary depending on how it is expressed
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how is x-linked recessie selected against due to loss of fitness
x-linked recessive only expressed and seleted againt in males... so 1/3 of x chromosomes are in males 1/3 of mutatn alleles are selected against
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if a male presents with x-linked disorder, what is the chance it was from mother vs. spontaneous mutation
2/3 chance from mother | 1/3 chance due to spontaneous mutation

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