In gene therapy an attempt is made to transfer a "normal" gene into the cells of a person who lacks copies of the "normal" gene. Why would scientists and the government be more receptive to somatic gene therapy than to germline gene therapy?
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- A patient comes into your clinic exhibiting generic cancer symptoms. In order to help form a diagnosis, you ask about patient history and they tell you that they worked for years in an agricultural job, primarily in handling food for large bovine animals and then later working with insect pesticide treatment of grain fields. You decide to test for elevated levels of the environmental agent(s) in their body and focus your cancer diagnosis on based on the established associations of epigentic effects and cancer. O nickel and cadmium; stomach and skin cancer O benzene; breast, prostate and thyroid cancer O polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and benzene; lung, breast, stomach and skin cancer O arsenic and endocrine disruptors; skin, bladder, liver and kidney cancerMany human cancers result when a normal gene mutates and leads to uncontrolled growth (a tumor). Genesthat cause cancer when they mutate are called oncogenes. Chemotherapy is effective against many tumorsbecause it targets rapidly dividing cells and kills them.Unfortunately, chemotherapy has many side effects,such as hair loss or nausea, because it also kills many ofour normal cells that are rapidly dividing, such as thosein the hair follicles or stomach lining.Many scientists and large pharmaceutical companiesare excited about the prospects of exploiting theRNAi pathway to selectively inhibit oncogenes in lifethreatening tumors. Explain in very general terms howgene-silencing therapy might work to treat cancer andwhy this type of therapy would have fewer side effectsthan chemotherapyProto-oncogenes can be converted to oncogenes in a numberof different ways. In some cases, the proto-oncogene itselfbecomes amplified up to hundreds of times in a cancer cell.An example is the cyclin D1 gene, which is amplified in somecancers. In other cases, the proto-oncogene may be mutatedin a limited number of specific ways, leading to alterations inthe gene product’s structure. The ras gene is an example of aproto-oncogene that becomes oncogenic after suffering pointmutations in specific regions of the gene. Explain why thesetwo proto-oncogenes (cyclin D1 and ras) undergo such differentalterations to convert them into oncogenes
- What rights does a cell donor have to stem cell lines or technologies created from cells they have donated? Should tissue donors share in the commercial potential and monetary awards of stem cell line created from their cells?/20. In class, we discussed diffferent types of genetic change that can cause a normal gene (proto- oncogene) to become a cancer-causing gene (oncogene), Which of the following would not be a cause? A) translocation or transposition (movement of DNA within the same genome) B) gene ampliffication (increased number of copies of a given gene) C) epigenetic change D) point mutation that changes the gene's product E) loss of telomeres during DNA replication ancer?Which of the following is a true statement? BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 mutations decrease risk of breast as well as ovarian cancer 4 If a woman has all of the major risk factors for breast cancer she will inevitably be diagnosed with breast cancer O Mammography is more accurate in postmenopausal women since breasts are not as glandular and dense O Having children at any age is protects a woman from getting breast cancer Previo MacBook Pro Next ▸
- Pinpointing a disease gene requires a combination of approaches. Mutations in the XIAP gene are known to cause a serious condition called X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLPD). In the case of XLPD, in which the blood contains too many lymphocytes (white blood cells of the immune system), crowding out the oxygen-carrying red blood cells and damaging the liver. When compairing the XIAP amino acid sequence of one affected patient to other human and animal standard RefSeq, the patient has an amino acid substitution at position 203, from cystenine (C) to tyrosing (Y). This evolutionary conservation suggests Group of answer choices that the standard RefSeq does not provide enough information to determine a possible cause of XIAP function. mutations in the XIAP gene and XLPD are not associated. that the mutation in the affected patient has no impact on XIAP function. that the mutation in the affected patient might alter XIAP function.What percentage of cells in an organ or a tissue need toexpress a therapeutic gene to alleviate the effects of agenetic disorder?. The website CBioPortal (http://www.cbioportal.org)is an exceptionally useful program for visualizing thecancer genes and genomes of tumors from thousandsof patients with different kinds of cancer that havebeen analyzed by whole genome sequencing and insome cases, by RNA-Seq.Go the the CBioPortal site and click All underSelect Cancer Study and in Enter Gene Set typePTEN, then hit Submit. On the page that is returnedyou will see how the coding region of the PTEN geneis altered in tumors investigated in the various studies.Hitting the tab Mutations will let you see the detailsof these mutations relative to the PTEN protein, whilethe tab Expression lets you see how the gene’s expression (in terms of cDNA reads) is altered in individual tumor samples.a. Is PTEN an oncogene or a tumor suppressor gene?What kinds of evidence lead you to this conclusion?b. What kinds of cancer are most likely to involvealterations of PTEN?c. How would you identify patients whose tumorcells are particularly…