You are researching a family with a heritable disease whose symptoms include hyper-flexible joints,pliable skin,stretchy ligaments,and fragile muscles that tear easily.You plan to use genetic testing to determine the cause of the disease.Which gene do you sequence first?

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The symptoms described in the scenario are indicative of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a condition caused by mutations in genes encoding various types of collagen. Therefore, sequencing the collagen gene (option D) would be the best choice to determine the cause of the disease. The other options (actin, epidermal growth factor, and myosin II heavy chain) do not have a known association with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

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