Unit 2 - Week 2 Flashcards
______ is characterized by severe anemia in which RBCs are destroyed before being released into circulation.
Thalassemia Major
_______ can detect recognized microdeletions, recognized chromosomal rearrangements, and gene copy numbers; can be useful in diagnosing aneuploidies prenatally
FISH
_______ is less soluble than HbA and tends to form crystals
HbC
_______ are mutations common in hemoglobinopathies in Africa
alpha, beta-thal, C, and S
_______ are mutations common in hemoglobinopathies in East Mediterranean.
beta-thal and S
_______ are mutations common in hemoglobinopathies in Southeast Asia
alpha, beta-thal, and E
_______ are mutations common in hemoglobinopathies in West Pacific
Alpha, beta-thal, and E
_______ are qualitative hemoglobinopathies.
HbS, HbC, and HbE
_______ are quantitative hemoglobinopathies.
Thalassemias
_______ can detect aneuploidies, chromosomal deletions, duplications, or insertions of moderate to large size (>3-5 Mb), rearrangements
Chromosome Analysis
_______ can detect aneuploidies, unbalanced chromosomal rearrangements, chromosome deletions (>200kb), and chromosomal duplications (>400kb)
CMA
_______ can detect mutations in known genes, polymorphic variants, small deletions/insertions (~1-100nt); ideal for looking at sequence of known disease gene
DNA sequencing
_______ cannot detect deletions or rearrangements not tested for, duplications in gene regions, point mutations and small deletions
FISH
_______ cannot detect deletions/duplications below the limit of resolution, nucleotide mutations, balanced chromosomal rearrangement
CMA
_______ cannot detect regions of the gene outside of the region the test was designed for (specificity is frequently less than 100%); large deletions/insertions, rearrangements or most chromosomal abnormalities
DNA sequencing
_______ cannot detect single gene deletions, point mutations, small deletions, duplications, and insertions, methylation defects, and trinucleotide repeat abnormalities
Chromosome Analysis
_______ is 80% less soluble than HbA and forms long polymers that distort the shape of RBCs
HbS
_______ is a fatal condition due to homozygosity for the alpha-thalassemia-___ allele.
Hydrops fetalis; 1
_______ is caused by a decrease in β-globin synthesis due to mutations affecting transcription, RNA processing, or protein stability
Beta+ Thalassemia
_______ is caused by deletion of β-globin gene, nonsense mutation, frameshift mutation, or mutations that result in no RNA synthesis
Beta0 Thalassemia
_______ is caused by large deletions that remove the β-globin gene plus other genes in the β-cluster or LCR
Complex Thalassemia
_______ is characterized by attempted blood production results in thinning bone cortex, enlarged liver, and enlarged spleen.
Thalassemia Major
_______ is characterized by clinically normal symptoms and carrier status for the Beta-thalassemia allele.
Thalassemia Minor
_______ is less important genetically than other drug metabolism genes, because the population distribution of activity is continuous and unimodal
CYP3A