BIOL 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Wild Type, Base Pair

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Linked-genes is one of the key ideas for identifying the gene responsible for heart disease. Linked-genes = allele of one gene is likely to be found with the allele of an adjacent gene. By finding a marker, we can find the particular allele that causes heart disease. Markers can be either single nucleotides or a short repeated sequence (short tandem repeats) An example of a linked gene in correlation with disease is that everyone in a family who has the disease can taste bitter compounds, and everyone without the disease cannot taste the bitter compound. If the gene sequence for tasting bitter compounds is known, then by looking for genes near the bitter gene, we can become more likely to find the gene for the disease. Essentially, we are looking for a link between a marker and a gene. The markers themselves are not responsible for the disease, but rather are close to the gene responsible for the disease.

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