The purpose of this chapter is to let you analyze genetic data as they are presented to you. Based on the data, formulate rules; then test the rules and look for exceptions that force you to modify them. Use this case study as a way to discover how genetics was used to understand the genomic mechanisms that cause this disease. The case study is written in the style of a short mystery that you as the reader must solve. Put yourself in the place of the physician who tries to help the children in the story.
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Structures
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Data
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List of Goals:
1.1 First Patients
Discover the complexity of apparently simple genetic diseases.
Use online bioinformatics tools to uncover new information.
Visualize protein connections and 3D structures.
1.2 The Next Steps in Understanding the Disease
Understand the value of a model research organism.
Recognize diagrams of interacting components as circuit diagrams.
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