You are studyingHuntington's disease. You would like to identify the gene associated with huntington's, and so you look at the SNP profile of a large family with Huntington's. Below are the results The color box indicates the disease, while the elements below the box describe the SNPS.
a) Which SNPs are linked to the Huntington's disease gene? How did you know?
b) What is the orientation of the alleles in the FAther, and what is map distance between the SNP and the allele?
Homework Answers
a, Single-nucleotide polymorphisms(SNP) is a therapy for
trinucleotide repeat disease like Huntingtons disease(HD) two
huntington's alleles -normal and disease..The seven most abundant
haplotypes associated for 83% of HD chromosomes..HD mutations
randomly result of genetic trans-factors..SNP linkage with
trinucleotide repeat disease or for any two SNP sites it shows the
distant from the site of mutation..
b, To identify linkage between a particular SNP and CAG repeat of
the HTT mRNA,direct sequencing of each product identified the SNP
linkage.SNP Linkage for trinucleotide repeat disease or for any two
alleles of a gene in which SNP sites of interest are distant from
the site of mutation..
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