Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Hi, I've gone through the entire process on the Science Buddies website for this project. I am researching Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and I am having trouble as to what numbers I need to collect for data? What data should I collect to put into graphs? Please Help!!
Thanks!

Hi 2kk2,

Is this the project you are doing? https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p008.shtml

This is a very relevant project. The things described in this project are more qualitative than quantitative. What is your hypothesis? The data you collect will be directly related to your hypothesis.

Here are a couple ideas of things you could look at:
Instead of making a graph you could show the SMART analysis. From this you could explain how the SNP affects this part of the protein and how that might contribute to the disease. Would something like this work for your project? If you want to do a quantitative analysis you could look at the population diversity (step 6 last screen shot). You could plot the percentages of alleles in each of the populations. Then you could compare this with other SNPs or compare it to the percentage of disease in each of these populations.

What ever you decide to do make sure to start by designing a good hypothesis. If you need some help with that take a look at these pages.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... esis.shtml
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... bles.shtml
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... bles.shtml

Let me know if you have anymore questions.
-microkts