Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 51P
The pedigree diagram below shows a family in which many individuals are affected by a disease called Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD). People with LWD are short in stature due to leg bone deformities; arm bones are also malformed in some individuals. The mutant gene responsible for LWD was identified in 1998 as SHOX, a gene located in a pseudoautosomal region (PAR1) of the X and Y chromosomes.
| a. | Is the SHOX allele that causes LWD dominant or recessive? Explain. (Note: Sex reversal is not involved.) |
| b. | Even though SHOX is located on the X chromosome, the pedigree is atypical for an X-linked allele. What features of the pedigree are incompatible with X-linkage? |
| c. | For each affected individual in the pedigree, determine whether the SHOX disease allele is on the X or the Y. |
| d. | Explain the inheritance pattern of the SHOX disease allele and the SHOX+ normal allele in pedigree. |
| e. | Diagram the crossover event that generated the Y chromosome in individual III-5. Your diagram should indicate the positions of the SHOX (disease) and SHOX (normal) alleles on the X and Y chromosomes in the germ-line cells of individual II-3, and SRY on Y. |
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