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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