Genetic disorders glossaries and terms

Resolution

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Return to the normal structure and/or function, e.g. the subsidence of a pathologic process, as the subsidence of an inflammatory lesion or new growth; also, the size of the smallest element that ...

Retrotransposon

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Retrotransposons are transposable DNA elements (transposons) that employ retroviral-like reverse transcription during the process of transposition: retrotransposon DNA is first transcribed into an ...

Retroposon

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Retrotransposons are transposable DNA elements (transposons) that employ retroviral-like reverse transcription during the process of transposition: retrotransposon DNA is first transcribed into an ...

Retinoids

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Retinol and its derivatives; C(20) polyunsaturated, cyclic, lipid soluble alcohol; deficiency results in night blindness and certain epithelial disorders. 2) A group of tetraterpenes, with four ...

Disease regression

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) Return to a former state; a subsidence of the symptoms of a disease process; in cancer, a decrease in the size of a tumour or in the extent of cancer in the body. 2) A decrease in the size of a ...

Positional cloning

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) The cloning or identification of a gene for a particular disease based on its location in the genome, determined by a collection of methods including linkage analysis, genomic (physical) mapping, ...

Reverse genetics

Health care; Genetic disorders

1) The cloning or identification of a gene for a particular disease based on its location in the genome, determined by a collection of methods including linkage analysis, genomic (physical) mapping, ...

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