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Chapter 11, Problem 17P
Sperm samples were taken from two men just beginning to show the effects of Huntington disease. Individual sperm from these samples were analyzed by PCR for the length of the trinucleotide repeat region in the HD gene. In the graphs that follow, the horizontal axes represent the number of CAG repeats in each sperm, and the vertical axes represent the fraction of total sperm of a particular size. The first graph shows the results for a man whose mutant HD allele (as measured in somatic cells) contained 62 CAG repeats; the man whose sperm were analyzed in the second graph had a mutant HD allele with 48 repeats.
| a. | What is the approximate CAG repeat number in the HD+ alleles from both patients? |
| b. | Assuming that these results indicate a trend, what can you conclude about the processes that give rise to mutant HD alleles? In what kinds of cells do these processes take place? |
| c. | How do these results explain why approximately 5–10% of Huntington disease patients have no family history of this condition? |
| d. | Predict the results if you performed this same PCR analysis on single skin cells from each of these patients instead of single sperm. |
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GENETICS(LL)-W/CONNECT >CUSTOM<
Ch. 11 - Choose the phrase from the right column that best...Ch. 11 - Would you characterize the pattern of inheritance...Ch. 11 - Would you be more likely to find single nucleotide...Ch. 11 - A recent estimate of the rate of base...Ch. 11 - If you examine Fig. 11.5 closely, you will note...Ch. 11 - Approximately 50 million SNPs have thus far been...Ch. 11 - Mutations at simple sequence repeat SSR loci occur...Ch. 11 - Humans and gorillas last shared a common ancestor...Ch. 11 - In 2015, an international team of scientists...Ch. 11 - Using PCR, you want to amplify an approximately 1...
Ch. 11 - Prob. 11PCh. 11 - The previous problem raises several interesting...Ch. 11 - You want to make a recombinant DNA in which a PCR...Ch. 11 - You sequence a PCR product amplified from a...Ch. 11 - Prob. 15PCh. 11 - The trinucleotide repeat region of the Huntington...Ch. 11 - Sperm samples were taken from two men just...Ch. 11 - Prob. 18PCh. 11 - a. It is possible to perform DNA fingerprinting...Ch. 11 - On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II; his wife the...Ch. 11 - The figure that follows shows DNA fingerprint...Ch. 11 - Microarrays were used to determine the genotypes...Ch. 11 - A partial sequence of the wild-type HbA allele is...Ch. 11 - a. In Fig. 11.17b, PCR is performed to amplify...Ch. 11 - The following figure shows a partial microarray...Ch. 11 - Scientists were surprised to discover recently...Ch. 11 - The microarray shown in Problem 25 analyzes...Ch. 11 - The figure that follows shows the pedigree of a...Ch. 11 - One of the difficulties faced by human geneticists...Ch. 11 - Now consider a mating between consanguineous...Ch. 11 - The pedigree shown in Fig. 11.22 was crucial to...Ch. 11 - You have identified a SNP marker that in one large...Ch. 11 - The pedigrees indicated here were obtained with...Ch. 11 - Approximately 3 of the population carries a mutant...Ch. 11 - The drug ivacaftor has recently been developed to...Ch. 11 - In the high-throughput DNA sequencing protocol...Ch. 11 - A researcher sequences the whole exome of a...Ch. 11 - As explained in the text, the cause of many...Ch. 11 - Figure 11.26 portrayed the analysis of Miller...Ch. 11 - A research paper published in the summer of 2012...Ch. 11 - Table 11.2 and Fig. 11.27 together portray the...Ch. 11 - The human RefSeq of the entire first exon of a...Ch. 11 - Mutations in the HPRT1 gene in humans result in at...Ch. 11 - Prob. 44P
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