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Chapter 17: Q. 25 (page 442)

If you had a chance to get your genome sequenced, what are some questions you might be able to have answered about yourself?

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Predicting Disease Risk at the Individual Level.

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Human Genome sequencing

Information about the entire human genome's six billion base pairs can be obtained by whole-genome sequencing.

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Predicting disease risk 

Disease risk prediction includes screening currently healthy individuals using genome-wide analysis at the personal level. Healthcare providers may recommend lifestyle changes and medications before the onset of illness. This approach is most applicable when the problem is a defect in a single gene. Such defects account for only 5 percent of the disease in developed countries. The majority of prevalent diseases, including heart disease, are polygenic, or multifactorial, which is a phenotypic trait involving two or more genes as well as environmental factors like food.

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protein signature is:

a. the path followed by a protein after it is synthesized
in the nucleus

b. the path followed by a protein in the cytoplasm

c. a protein expressed on the cell surface

d. a unique set of proteins present in a diseased state

What is the most challenging issue facing genome sequencing?

a. the inability to develop fast and accurate sequencing techniques

b. the ethics of using information from genomes at the individual level

c. the availability and stability of DNA

d. all of the above

GMOs are created by ________.

a. generating genomic DNA fragments with restriction endonucleases

b. introducing recombinant DNA into an organism by any means

c. overexpressing proteins in E. coli

d. all of the above

Whole-genome sequencing can be used for advances in:

a. the medical field

b. agriculture

c. biofuels

d. all of the above

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