Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 24P
Reciprocal crosses were performed using two inbred strains of mice, AKR and PWD, that have different alleles of many polymorphic loci. In each of the two crosses, placental tissue was isolated whose origin was strictly from the fetus (this can be separated by dissection from placental tissue originating from the mother). RNA was prepared from the fetal placental tissue and then subjected to deep sequencing (that is, RNA-Seq). Because of the polymorphisms, investigators could compare the number of reads of mRNAs for specific genes that were transcribed from maternal or paternal alleles, as shown in the following figure. (The x-axis shows the percentage of reads for the given mRNA that correspond to the AKR allele of that gene.)
| a. | Which of the genes (A, B, or C) is maternally imprinted? Which is paternally imprinted? Which is not imprinted? |
| b. | Why was it important to perform reciprocal crosses to determine whether any of the genes were imprinted? |
| c. | Using the same type of diagram that indicates the percentage of AKR alleles, diagram the expected results for these same three genes if a female F mouse from the cross on the left (that is, a daughter of a cross between an AKR female and a PWD male) was then crossed to a PWD male. Describe the two possible outcomes for each gene. |
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