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In a particular country in sub-Saharan Africa, a medical study revealed that
0.075% of the country's population are suffering from sickle-cell anemia. Sickle
cell disease is caused by a mutation in the haemoglobin-Beta gene found on
chromosome 11. Sickle cell anemia is controlled by a pair of alleles, H and h,
where the individuals with the illness have the homozygous recessive genotype;
those with normal red blood cells have the alternative genotype.
Using the Hardy-Weinberg's equation, calculate the percentage of the population
of the two genotypes for normal blood cells.
In a few remote areas in that country, the percentage of sickle cell anemia reaches
as high as 5%. Calculate the percentage of homozygous and heterozygous
individuals with the normal blood cells and find the ratio for both
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- Take the example of B-thalassemia, an autosomal recessive genetic disease that particularly affects people from around the Mediterranean. This disease is associated with an anomaly of hemoglobin, a protein essential for the transport of oxygen, which is composed of four chains: two alpha (a) and two beta (B). In case of B-thalassemia, the ẞ chains are produced in insufficient or no quantity in an individual homozygous recessive resulting in insufficient production of overall hemoglobin leading to anemia and other physiological challenges. The gene that controls the synthesis of the ẞ chains is located on chromosome 11. Here is part of the coding portion of this gene (which controls a total of 146 amino acids and of which you only see the portion 36 to 41) and one of the targeted mutations: 1. Give the sequence of amino acids from the template and mutated strands. 2. What type of point mutation is it? 3. Using the principles of the theory of evolution, explain briefly and generally why…The gene known to be mutated in cases of Agammaglobulinemia 2 (which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern) is the immunoglobulin lambda like polypeptide 1 (IGLL1 ENSG00000128322). What is known about the gene is recorded here: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000128322;r=22:23573125-23580302 Please navigate to the link above to answer the following question: Using the left-hand menu to view the sequence for IGLL1, what are the last 12 nucleic acid bases of exon 1?The allele of the gene responsible for the lung disorder, cystic fibrosis rose to prominence in Europe in the 1800s. Cystic fibrosis disease results from thick mucus accumulating in the lungs, which occurs in individuals who are homozygous for the CF allele. A pleiotropic effect is that heterozygous individuals are less likely to suffer from diarrhea. During the European cholera epidemics of the 1800s, resistance against diarrhea conferred a survival advantage such that approximately one in every 400 people in some European populations have cystic fibrosis. Fill in the table below with the genotype and allele frequencies for this 1 in 400 occurrence and provide the Hardy-Weinberg principle model you will be using. (Assume that individuals with the cystic fibrosis trait (CF) reproduce normally and that good sanitation means that there is currently no fitness advantage to diarrhea resistance.) phenotype CF DR normal (totals) Genotype cc Cc CC Number of Individuals 1 ______…
- The gene known to be mutated in cases of Agammaglobulinemia 2 (which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern) is the immunoglobulin lambda like polypeptide 1 (IGLL1 ENSG00000128322). What is known about the gene is recorded here: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000128322;r=22:23573125-23580302 Please navigate to the link above and click, 'show transcript table', to answer the following question: What is the size in amino acid residues of the IGLL1 transcript named IGLL1-203? NOTE: Please give your answer as a number, not a word, and do not type the units.The gene known to be mutated in cases of Agammaglobulinemia 2 (which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern) is the immunoglobulin lambda like polypeptide 1 (IGLL1 ENSG00000128322). What is known about the gene is recorded here: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000128322;r=22:23573125-23580302 Please navigate to the link above to answer the following question: According to the web site above, how many phenotypes is IGLL1 associated with? ANSWER: IGLL1 is associated with Blank ... phenotypes.The gene known to be mutated in cases of Agammaglobulinemia 2 (which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern) is the immunoglobulin lambda like polypeptide 1 (IGLL1 ENSG00000128322). What is known about the gene is recorded here: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000128322;r=22:23573125-23580302 Please navigate to the link above and click 'show transcript table' to answer the following question: What is the NCBI accession number (including the version) of the RefSeq Match for the transcript IGLL1-202? ANSWER: The NCBI accession number (including the version) of the RefSeq Match for the transcript IGLL1-202 is "Blank 1".
- The gene known to be mutated in cases of Agammaglobulinemia 2 (which is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern) is the immunoglobulin lambda like polypeptide 1 (IGLL1 ENSG00000128322). What is known about the gene is recorded here: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000128322;r=22:23573125-23580302 Please navigate to the link above and click, 'show transcript table', to answer the following question: What is the size in base pairs of the IGLL1 transcript named IGLL-202?Sandhoff disease is due to a mutation in a gene that encodes a proteincalled hexosaminidase B. This disease has symptoms that aresimilar to those of Tay-Sachs disease. Weakness begins in the first 6 months of life. Individuals exhibit early blindness and progressive mental and motor deterioration. The family in the pedigree shown below has three members with Sandhoff disease, indicated with black symbols.Sickle-cell disease is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes the red blood cells of an affected person to be rigid and abnormally shaped. The life expectancy of a person affected by the disorder is approximately 45 years. Carriers of the disease produce some sickled cells, but not enough to be symptomatic.Malaria is a potentially fatal disease caused by the protist Plasmodium falciparum.Studies have shown that those affected by sickle-cell disease (genotype ss), as well as carriers who possess only one sickle-cell allele (Ss), are much more resistant to malaria than those with homozygous dominant genotypes (SS). This resistance is created in part by the rupturing of any sickled red blood cells that are infected with the parasite, preventing Plasmodium falciparum from reproducing and making it more susceptible to the host's immune system.Which of the following statements best predicts what would happen in response to a prolonged epidemic of malaria in a population with no previous…
- One particularly useful feature of the Hardy-Weinberg equation is that it allows us to estimate the frequency of heterozygotes for recessive genetic diseases, assuming that Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium exists. As an example, let’s consider cystic fibrosis, which is a human genetic disease involving a gene that encodes a chloride transporter. Persons with this disorder have an irregularity in salt and water balance. One of the symptoms is thick mucus in the lungs that can contribute to repeated lung infections. In populations of Northern European descent, the frequency of affected individuals is approximately 1 in 2500. Because this is a recessive disorder, affected individuals are homozygotes. Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what is the frequency of individuals who are heterozygous carriers?Sickle-cell anemia is an interesting genetic disease. Normal homozygous individials (SS) have normal blood cells that are easily infected with the malarial parasite. Thus, many of these individuals become very ill from the parasite and many die. Individuals homozygous for the sickle-cell trait (ss) have red blood cells that readily collapse when deoxygenated. Although malaria cannot grow in these red blood cells, individuals often die because of this genetic defect causes deformation of red blood cells. However, individuals with the heterozygous condition (Ss) have some sickling of red blood cells, but generally not enough to cause mortality. In addition, malaria cannot survive well within these "partially defective" red blood cells. Thus, heterozygotes tend to survive better than either of the homozygous conditions. Assuming HWE, if 9% of an African population is born with a severe form of sickle-cell anemia (ss), what percentage of the population will be more resistant to malaria…Tay–Sachs disease is caused by loss-of-function mutations ina gene on chromosome 15 that encodes a lysosomal enzyme.Tay–Sachs is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition.Among Ashkenazi Jews of Central European ancestry, about1 in 3600 children is born with the disease. What fraction ofthe individuals in this population are carriers?