Showing posts with label genetic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetic. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Medical genetic inheritance II - recessive type associated with x and Dominant inheritance

The first part of this article. Medical genetic inheritence can be divided into four types. Autosomal recessive and Dominant types and dominant and recessive x-linked. The types of autosomal, recessive both dominant have been discussed in previous articles. Let's now talk about the type of gender-related or rather bound inheritence x.

X-linked recessive inheritance
1. There are "oblique" transmission, i.e., in the pedigree, the line drawn by the affected persons is oblique.
2. Only males are affected, females are only carriers.
3. For the progeny of a female carrier has 50% probability of affected son and 50% probability of daughters being carriers.
4. For the descendants of an affected male, none of the threads will carry line, while all daughters will be carriers.

A female can manifest a character bound to x if the normal x chromosome is inactivated life fetal (Lyonization) or if it is the offspring of a male of female, and are affected carrier, or if the unaffected x-chromosome is structurally abnormal as in Turner's syndrome. Example: Hemophilia disease of Christmas, pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy.

X-linked dominant inheritance
1. The number of affected women is doubling the number of affected males.
2. The affected male going of chromosome y sons (and not the X chromosome), accordingly, all affected male sounds are normal, while all girls affected male are abnormal.
3 Affected females passes the x-chromosome mutant half of his daughters and sons and consequently, half half girls and half threads are affected.

Disease is usually milder females, due to gene on the other X chromosome, for example, type of vitamin D resistant rickets hypo-phosphatemic

Monday, April 18, 2011

Who invented the genetic engineering?

If you're wondering who invented genetic engineering, don't be surprised to hear that this controversial area has begun there way long early 1900s by the work of the Austrian monk and scientist named Gregor Mendel. What his work led to was the establishment of genetics as a scientific study area. Since then, many other scientists followed through and made the discoveries.

In 1944, Oswald Avery Colin McLeod and Maclyn McCarty concluded that genetic information may be found in DNA. Since then, the integer scientists began to study DNA and its properties. In 1953, Watson and Crick made a breakthrough when they decoded the DNA structure. It is an important finding because understanding structure allowed for specific DNA modifications.

And then, in the 1960s, Ian Wilmut had begun to develop ways to clone animals from mammalian cells. Restriction enzyme was discovered later in 1968 by microbiologist Switzerland Werner Arber, followed by type II restriction enzyme found in 1969 by American biologist Hamilton Smith.

More research in genetic engineering took place in the 1970s, which put emphasis on bacteria and microorganisms. There, gene isolation and weathering techniques have been developed, allowing scientists to draw a gene from a plant to another. It also found that this could be done with animals, which would create changes to inheritance.

In 1973, a process of cutting DNA and endearing other DNA was developed by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen, which allowed them to make the bacteria reproduce. This was used in the production of insulin. In this decade, scientists were also attempting to slice of genes from other organisms to higher forms. The first of these was the insertion of growth hormone in a mouse in which made the mouse grow twice its size. In 1986, a genetically modified virus was sold to the vaccine. In 1987, a conclusion was made replacement of genes from one organism to another present no danger to the environment.

In the history of genetic engineering is full of controversy and debate. While we will never know how the future is influenced by the possibilities, it is quite remarkable. Things would be different if there is one who invented the genetic engineering.