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The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
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....cts on the digestive system and the lungs. This disease
is the most common genetic disorder among Caucasians. Cystic fibrosis
affects about one in 2,500 people, with one in twenty five being a
heterozygote. With the use of antibiotics, the life span of a person
afflicted with CF can be extended up to thirty years howev.... Part 2 of Paper
....everse genetics" was applied. Scientists accomplished this by linking the
disease to a specific chromosome. After this linkage, they isolated the
gene of interest on the chromosome and then tested its product.
Before the disease could be linked to a specific chromosome, a
marker needed to be found that would always travel with the disease. This
marker is known as a Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism or RFLP for
short. RFLP's are varying base sequences of DNA in different individual.... |
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