Correction: I said & wrote “Post-Translational Mods” when I really meant post-TRANSCRIPTIONAL modifications. Thanks to Sean Typher for point out the typo in the comments!
Expect about 16 genetics questions on the exam
10 – Autosomal Recessive Inheritance
9 – X Linked Recessive Inheritance
9 – Pedigrees
7 – Post-Transcriptional Modifications
6 – Translation
6 – Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
5 – Mitochondrial Inheritance
5 – Tuberous Sclerosis
4 – Epigenetics
4 – Autosomal Dominant Inheritance
4 – Lesch Nyhan
3 – DNA Replication
3 – Imprinting, Angleman & Prader-Willi
3 – Polygenic Inheritance
3 – Neurofibromatosis
3 – Down Syndrome
2 – Variable Expressivity
2 – Variable Expressivity
2- Mosaicism
2 – Pleiotropy
2 – Incomplete Penetrance
2 – Von Hippel Lindau
No Yield:
- Nucleotide & DNA/RNA Structure
- Ligase, Telomerase, Helicase, Primase ….
- Okazaki Fragments & the process of transcription
- DNA Repair Mechanisms & Related Diseases
- Gene Regulation
- Specifics about Protein Synthesis
- Meiosis & Mitosis
- X-Linked Dominant
- Hardy-Weinberg Calculations
- Uniparental disomy
- Locus heterogeneity
- Pyrimidine Synthesis
- Purine Synthesis
- Orotic Aciduria
- Sturge Weber Syndrome
- Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Cri du Chat
- Edwards
- Patau
- Friedrichs Ataxia
- Myotonic dystrophy