Homework#2
1) From the list below you will be assigned a disease.  Recover three review articles published within the last two years that describe the gene and give the citation for each article.  Print out one article.  Describe the symptoms of the disease and give the name of a single gene associated with the disease.  Indicate the chromosome location, the name of the gene that is telomeric, and the name of the gene that is centromeric to your gene.  Obtain the nucleotide and amino acid sequence of your gene.  Include a reference for each website you used to retrieve the information and each article you used.  Report the information on a text document (could be msword) and print out and hand in.

List of diseases:

Colon cancer
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Cystic fibrosis
Cardiomyopathy
Bloom syndrome
Aarskog-Scott syndrome
Albinism
Adrenoleukodystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy (Duchene's Syndrome)
Hemophilia
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Huntington's disease
Wilson disease
Menkes disease
Friedreich's ataxia
Werner syndrome
Fragile X RES

2) Give the names of the five species from which the complete BRCA1 tumor suppressor cDNA has been sequenced. Explain how you retrieved this information.


 
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