NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Epigenetics, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, Endophenotype
20 Dec 2017
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Children do not have good ways of coping with stress. Epistatic interaction (epistasis) a gene will interact with another gene, if a and. Over dominance mom 5"4, dad 6"1 son 6"5. What can you learn from an f2 that"s not apparent in f1: the recessive trait. Genes are often inherited as a group or in sets (linkage: the genes are next to one another on the chromosome thus being linked. We are always on the lookout for biomarkers to prepare for any illness. Heritability score how much of a variance for a particular phenotype is inherited: monozygotic vs dizygotic, pv = gv + ev + gv x ev. Regulatory gene instructs template gene, when or how they gene will go into effect: errors will appear ( mutations, any changes in the nucleotides, ie. frameshift, deletion, substituition. Polymorphism appears in more than 1% in the population. Certain diseases like cancer you can identify the polymorphisms.
