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Genetic disorders
Genetic diseases, syndromes, or conditions caused by genetic variations and abnormalities in genes or chromosomes.
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Genetic disorders
Minisatellite
Health care; Genetic disorders
Repeated segments of the same sequence of multiple triplet codons, each segment varying between 14 and 100 base pairs, useful as linkage markers due to their highly polymorphic nature and the fact ...
Predispositional testing
Health care; Genetic disorders
Testing of an asymptomatic individual in whom the discovery of a gene mutation indicates that eventual development of findings related to a specific diagnosis is likely but not certain. A negative ...
Ilium
Health care; Genetic disorders
The dorsal, upper, and largest one of the three bones composing either lateral half of the pelvis that in humans is broad and expanded above and narrower below where it joins with the ischium and ...
Band level
Health care; Genetic disorders
The total number of bands estimated to be present in a haplotype set (23) of chromosomes. When cell division is arrested and staining is performed at an earlier stage of mitosis (prometaphase), ...
Assortative mating
Health care; Genetic disorders
Nonrandom mating between unrelated individuals with similar characteristics. Used for human or animal populations.
Gene symbol
Health care; Genetic disorders
A unique abbreviation of a gene name consisting of italicised uppercase Latin letters and Arabic numbers formally assigned by the by HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee after a gene has been identified ...
