Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
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Chapter 11, Problem 33P
The pedigrees indicated here were obtained with three unrelated families whose members express the same disease caused by a completely penetrant dominant allele. The disease allele is linked at a distance of 10 cM from an SSR marker locus with three alleles numbered 1, 2, and 3. The SSR alleles present within each living person’s genotype are indicated below the pedigree symbol. The
a. | What is the probability of disease expression in each of these newborn babies? |
b. | Why would a human geneticist be unlikely to use this SSR marker for diagnosis of the genetic disease? |
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Chapter 11 Solutions
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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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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