Trigger 9: DDs examples Flashcards
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schizophrenia has a lifetime prevalence of
1%
schizophrenia is …..% heritable
80%
thought to be caused by high burden of
de novo mutations
autism spectrum disorder prevalence
1.5%
autism is ….% heritable
50-90%
autism spectrum disorder have a comple
genetic architecture
ASD can be
monogenic and syndromic forms
- complex multifactorial causes
ASD caused by
high burden of de novo mutations and large CNVs
ASD is caused by an interplay between
familial background and high risk events (e.g. de novo mutation), explaining varying clinical manifestations
prevalence of intellectual disability
1-2%
heritability of intellectual disability
50-90%
intellectual disability is defined as having and IQ below
70
intellectual disability is
very heterogenous
intellectual disability like ASD has
monogenic and syndromic forms
intellectual disability can be caused by
environmental factors (e.g. mother drinking whilst pregnant)
intellectual disability caused by a
ugh burden of de novo mutations and large CNVs
many disorders are overlapping
conditions
e. g. ASD overlapping with SCZ
e. g. ASD overlapping with ID
de novo heterozygous mutations are a common
cause of dominant DD
inherited variants are a
common cause of recessive DD
homozygous
two copies of the same variant, one from each parent
compound heterozygous
The presence of two different mutant alleles at a particular gene locus, one on each chromosome of a pair.
halpoinsufficnecy
only having a single functioning copy of a gene is not enough for normal function mutations caused by a dominant phenotype
severe HI means that
genes are intolerant to loss of one functioning copy
better explanation of HI
when the normal phenotype requires the protein product of both alleles and reduction of 50% (e.g. loss of function of one allele) of gene function results in an abnormal phontype