Kids are allergic to milk products

A 3 year old boy was brought in to his pediatrician by his mother who is concerned that he is “walking funny”. The pediatrician orders a serum CK (creatine kinase) test and finds it highly elevated and suspects muscular dystrophy. DNA testing determines that he has an out-of-frame deletion in the dystrophin gene. What information would be MOST appropriate to give the family about his diagnosis?

Acrocentric chromosomes have a small short arm (p) consisting of repetitive DNA. What is the clinical significance of this finding?

A particular condition shows a concordance of 0.7 in monozygotic twins and 0.1 in dizygotic twins. Which of the following best describes the significance of this difference?

A woman has a son with Fragile X syndrome. Parental testing of the mother shows that she has one allele with a repeat of 90 (the risk of expansion to a full mutation is 80%). She is now pregnant with a girl. What is the chance that the daughter would have premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) as an adult (the chance of developing POI is 20% in women with FMR1-related premutations)?

Prenatal testing by CVS (chorionic villus sampling) shows that a fetus is affected with Turner syndrome. What can you tell the family about the fetus?

A child is born with a cleft palate and severe congenital heart disease. A chest X-ray shows absence of the thymus. Which statement is TRUE regarding this condition?

What is the believed molecular pathogenesis of the premature ovarian failure in Fragile X premutation carriers?

Which of the following acts as a proxy between an application and a database to support interaction and simplify the work of programmers?

During a meeting of company leadership and the security team, discussion focuses on defining the value of assets in dollars, inventorying threats, predicting the specific amount of harm of a breach, and determining the number of times a threat could cause harm to the company each year. What is being performed?