Position Effect

OVERVIEW

You discovered the importance of gene placement within the genome and how certain diseases

might occur if genes are rearranged. This assignment will assess your ability to construct a

logical essay-style response concerning position effect mechanisms and the diseases they cause.

Depending on the prompt you respond to, it may also assess your ability to interpret the findings

presented in the assigned research article in the Learn section (Read: Formation of Boundaries of

Transcriptionally Silent Chromatin by Nucleosome-Excluding Structures).

INSTRUCTIONS

Compose a paragraph-style response for one of the essay topics listed below:

Based on the introduction to the article referenced above, give three models that might

explain how boundary or insulator elements protect a gene from the influence of nearby

genomic regions.

Link to paper:

assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

cite in AMA format