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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: Methylation Exome sequencing CMV The Deafness Variation Database

2.  Genetics is the study of: Heredity Proteins Cells Metabolism

3.  Epigenetics involves changes in: DNA sequence Gene expression Amino acids The microbiome

4.  Genomics is a branch of: Metabolomics Molecular biology The ENCODE project Methylation

5.  One of the main goals of the Human Genome Project was to: Define different types of cancer Address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project Perform massively parallel sequencing Determine the number of genes in grapes

6.  Personalized medicine is also known as _____ medicine. Pharmacogenetic Stem Cell Precision Variant

7.  Approximately ____ genes are associated with hereditary hearing loss. 1000 100 1 None

8.  The most common gene associated with deafness is: DFNA1 POU4F3 TMC1 Connexin 26

9.  The following technology is most widely used today to identify variants associated with deafness: Linkage analysis Chromosomal localization Proteomics Massively parallel sequencing

10.  A form of genome editing is: The 3% of the genome encoding proteins Methylation CRISPR-Cas9 Proteomics