Missing PCSK9

  1. For my mutation, I didn’t find very many websites that talked about Missing PCSK9 so I kind of had to make do with the couple of resources that I had acess to. I would search up on GOOGLE things like , “missing PCSK9” and “high cholesterol level effects.”
  2. I tried a new voice recording app on my ipad since my ipad no longer has voice memos. The app I used was AudioMemos. I had to figure out how to get the recording onto my edublog because when I had voicememos, I would put it on imovie, upload it on youtube then, put the link of the youtube video on edublog. Since I used AudioMemos, I had to send an e-mail of the recording to myself from my ipad, go onto my computer and save the recording into my files onto my computer in order to upload it onto edublog.
  3. I researched a lot about missing PCSK9. I finally found out the process of what the PCSK9 does to the body and the what it does when it is missing. Since I found it quite confusing, I copied it onto a work document and reworded it so that I had a more simple defenition of what Missing PCSK9 is.
  4. I used a couple of websites and all of the sites had similer information: https://blog.23andme.com/health-traits/genetic-research-could-lead-to-new-cholesterol-drugs/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSK9, http://www.emedicinehealth.com/high_cholesterol/article_em.htm
  5. Overall, I think I did pretty well although I may have chosen a more common mutation as there wasn’t too much information on the mutation that I chose (missing PCSK9.)