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Epigenetics of the Auditory System: Implications for Hearing and Deafness, presented in partnership with American Auditory Society

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1.  Epigenetic processes include:
  1. Methylation
  2. Exome sequencing
  3. CMV
  4. The Deafness Variation Database
2.  Genetics is the study of:
  1. Heredity
  2. Proteins
  3. Cells
  4. Metabolism
3.  Epigenetics involves changes in:
  1. DNA sequence
  2. Gene expression
  3. Amino acids
  4. The microbiome
4.  Genomics is a branch of:
  1. Metabolomics
  2. Molecular biology
  3. The ENCODE project
  4. Methylation
5.  One of the main goals of the Human Genome Project was to:
  1. Define different types of cancer
  2. Address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project
  3. Perform massively parallel sequencing
  4. Determine the number of genes in grapes
6.  Personalized medicine is also known as _____ medicine.
  1. Pharmacogenetic
  2. Stem Cell
  3. Precision
  4. Variant
7.  Approximately ____ genes are associated with hereditary hearing loss.
  1. 1000
  2. 100
  3. 1
  4. None
8.  The most common gene associated with deafness is:
  1. DFNA1
  2. POU4F3
  3. TMC1
  4. Connexin 26
9.  The following technology is most widely used today to identify variants associated with deafness:
  1. Linkage analysis
  2. Chromosomal localization
  3. Proteomics
  4. Massively parallel sequencing
10.  A form of genome editing is:
  1. The 3% of the genome encoding proteins
  2. Methylation
  3. CRISPR-Cas9
  4. Proteomics

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