Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings

Exercise 16

You join a laboratory that studies a rare genetic disorder that causes affected individuals to have unusually fast-growing, bright green hair. You are joining the lab at a fortuitous moment, as the gene causing the disorder has just been cloned. Despite this breakthrough, however, it is still unclear what the function of the gene is, and the lab director asks you for suggestions about how to go about trying to determine this. What do you recommend?