An Example of the Utility of Gene Expression Profiling in a Clinical

question 12

Multiple Choice

An example of the utility of gene expression profiling in a clinical situation is

• A) finding that a child has inherited a certain genotype.
• B) identifying genes with aberrant expression levels in cancers likely to spread.
• C) the ability to inject a gene to compensate for a defective or missing gene.
• D) to determine whether a medical condition is inherited or not.
• E) replacing a gene bearing a mutation with a wild type version in the affected tissue.

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