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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
....enetics" 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 individuals which are
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