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Non-Disjunction

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Anomalous chromosome numbers caused by improper segregation (aneuploidy)

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Types of non-disjunction

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  • Non-disjunction is meiosis I: each gamete has 2 Xs or none
  • Non-disjunction is meiosis II: Each gamete has 2, 1, or no Xs
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Non-disjunction example in flies

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ORIGINAL FINDING
- Started with white eyed female and red eyed male
- Produced all daughters with red eyes and all sons with white eyes
CYTOLOGICAL STUDIES RESULTS
- The unusual males with red eyes had one X chromosome from father and no Y (male in flies but female in humans)
- The unusual females had two X chromosomes from their mother and a Y from the father (Female in flies but male in humans)

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Non-disjunction of autosomes: trisomy 21

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Down Syndrome
- At least 0.3% of newborns and 25% of spontaneous abortions
- Most common form of mental retardation
- Least several viable autosomal trisomy

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Non-disjunction of autosomes: Trisomy 18

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Edwards syndrome X
- Severe intellectual disability, decreased muscle tone, low-set ears, internal organ defects

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Non-disjunction of autosomes: Trisomy 13

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Patau Syndrome
- Severe intellectual disability and other problems
- 90% die in first year of life

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Chiasmata and Nondisjunction

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  • The rate of recombination may differ between males and females (in females more recombination in the center, in males more recombination on the tips_
  • Nondisjunction is sometimes associated with chromosomes that did not recombine, which suggests that recombination may be important for proper chromosomal segregation
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What are suggested mechanism for non- disjunction?

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  • lack of recombination
  • Checkpoint failure
  • age-related degradation of the cohension complex
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Cohension Complex

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Inhibits microtubule attachment during cell division

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What 2 factors can influence sex determination?

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Environmental and Genetic

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Def: Genetic Sex

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Based on what chromosomes an individual has; multiple types

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Def: Phenotypic Sex

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Based on external appearance - many species have two sexes, some have one, some have more than two

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Def: Gender identity

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Based on how someone feels or identifies

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Sex determination in Drosophila

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The X/A ratio determines gender
- Females X/A ratio of 1.0
- Males X/A ratio of 0.5

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Sex determination in placental and marsupial mammals

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Determined by the presence or absence of the Y-linked gen SRY
- Sexual differentiation results in a continuum of phenotypes that includes intermediates
- Genetic sex doesn’t always match the typical phenotypic sex

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Development of genitals based on presence or absence of SRY gene

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  • Start with undifferentiated gonad, wolffian duct and Mullerian duct
    SRY PRESENT
  • wolffian duct becomes vas deferens and gonads becomes testis
    SRY ABSENT
  • Mullerian duct becomes fallopian tubes and gonads becomes ovaries
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Congenital Adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)

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  • Mutations in the CYP21 gene prevent degradation of testosterone and derivatives
  • In boys it results in very early pubescence
  • In girls it results in an enlarged clitoris and masculinized body hair
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5’-Alpha Reductase Deficiency

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  • Decrease in DHT production
  • Leads to lack of external genitalia development until puberty
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Androgen Insensitivity syndrome

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Genetically male individuals have a defective androgen receptor: external appearance is female, but gonads are undifferentiated (Individuals are sterile)

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ZW sex determineation

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In birds, butterflies, moths, some reptiles and amphibians there is female heterogamy, meaning they are determining sex of offspring

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Congenital Hypertrichosis

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Excessive body hair affecting both males and females
- All carriers of the mutant allele also express the trait

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Y-linked inheritance

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  • Exclusively male to male transmission
  • Mammals have about 80 genes on the Y chromosome
  • Genes on the human Y chromosome do not have homolog on the X chromosome
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Dosage compensation of X-linked Genes

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  • In placental mammals, one X in females is silenced (X inactivation) - not 100% and different in each cell
  • In fruit flies, the X in the males is upregulated (Hypertranscription)
  • In nematodes, both X-linked alleles in females have lower expression (Hypotranscription)
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How does X inactivation happen in placental mammals?

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  • Random X inactivation
  • One chromosomes is coded by RNA to be transcriptionally inert forming inactive Barr body
  • Descendant cells have same activation
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Coat Color in cats as an application for X inactivation
- Heterozygous individuals will have one allele producing black and another producing orange - Inactivation leads to pattern of orange and black cats
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Mechanism of X inactivation in placental mammals
- Requires expression of an X-lined gene called XIST (X-inactivation-specific-transcript) - XIST encodes a long RNA molecule that covers the chromosome to be inactivated - XIST transcript acts in cis, meaning it only affects the chromosome from which it is transcribed
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Wildtype Allele
- The most common allele - Can be dominant or recessive
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Functional effects of Mutations
WILD TYPE - if genotype is homozygous wildtype, both alleles produce some amount of protein NULL ALLELE - Produces no protein LOSS OF FUNCTION ALLELE (hypomorphic) - produces less protein than the wildtype (diminished function compared to the wildtype) GAIN OF MUTATIONS (hypermorphic) - produce excess protein NOVEL FUNCTION (Neomorphic) - produce different protein
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Dominant negative mutations
- Type of loss of function mutation - type of mutant phenotype is often due to impaired interactions with other proteins - interfere with the function of a wildtype allele at the same locus`
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Complete Penetrance
If a genotype always produces the same phenotype
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Possible causes for one genotype having multiple phenotypes
- Sex-limited traits - Sex-influenced traits - Incomplete penetrance - Variable expressivity
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Incomplete/partial dominance
Heterozygous individuals have a phenotype that is intermediate to each homozygous phenotype
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Allelic Series
Hierarchical dominance relationships among several alleles at a locus
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Co-dominance
- Heterozygous phenotype is different from either homozygous phenotype - Not necessarily intermediate, but instead different from either homozygous phenotype
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Lethal Alleles
- Inviable when homozygous - Alters the phenotypic ratio of crosses
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How do lethal alleles persist in populations?
- The onset of symptoms is during or after reproduction, passing the allele on to the next generation - Disease causing mutation are frequently introduced into populations by de novo mutations
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Mutation-selection equilibrium
- There is a balance between removal by natural selection and introduction by new mutation
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Sex-limited traits
Both sexes carry genes but only one sex expresses the phenotype - E.g. Mammalian lactation is a female-specific phenotype, horn development is males-specific in some sheep, cows and other hoofed animals
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Sex-Influenced traits
Both sexes carry a gene, but the phenotype varies between the sexes
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Incomplete penetrance
Traits that are nonpenetrant in some individuals but penetrant in other individuals
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Variable expressivity
One genotype has multiple phenotypes that are variable - variation is caused by interactions with other genes that may differ among individuals and/or environmental effects
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Phenylketonuria
- Human disease characterized by an inability to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine - Over time, build up of phenylalanine causes serious problems - Requires environmental manipulation of restricting diet
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Pleiotropy
When one gene affects many phenotypes
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Epistasis
The phenomenon where the effects of one gene is dependent on the alleles of one or more modifier genes
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Complementary epistatic interaction
Both alleles are required for expression - offspring phenotype proportion of 9:7
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Dominant suppression epistatic interaction
The dominant expression of one allele suppresses the expression of another - 13:3
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Syntenic Genes
Genes on the same chromosome
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Linked genes
Syntenic genes that are so close together that their alleles cannot be sorted independently
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Purpose of genetic linkage mapping
Plots the positions of genes and their relative distances from each other on chromosomes

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