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SICKLE-CELL DISEASE [3 records]

Record 1 2012-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
DEF

A gene that will produce an effect in the organism only when it is transmitted by both parents.

OBS

The gene for Huntington's disease is dominant. Anyone who carries it eventually develops the disease. But not all genetic disorders are so clear-cut. The genes for cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia, for instance, are recessive : it takes two copies, one from each parent, to produce the disease. If both your parents carry the gene, you have one chance in four of developing the disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Biologie moléculaire
OBS

récessif : Se dit d'un gène (d'un allèle) ou de la mutation d'un gène qui, lorsqu'il est présent sous forme de copie unique dans le génome, ne se manifeste pas sous la forme d'un trait morphologique ou d'un syndrome clinique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
  • Biología molecular
DEF

Gen que se manifiesta en ausencia del gen dominante, en los individuos diploides y heterozigotos.

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Record 2 2011-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Genetics
CONT

... in the human genetic disease sickle-cell anemia, the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecule of the red blood cells is defective because in its synthesis 2 of the nearly 600 amino acid units of which hemoglobin is composed are the wrong kind.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Génétique
CONT

[...] dans une maladie génétique humaine, l'anémie drépanocytaire; la molécule d'hémoglobine qui transporte l'oxygène dans les globules rouges est défectueuse parce qu'au cours de sa synthèse, 2 des 600 aminoacides qui constituent l'hémoglobine ne sont pas les aminoacides qui devraient normalement être présents.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
  • Genética
CONT

Los seres humanos tienen varias enfermedades genéticas, a menudo causadas por genes recesivos. Algunos ejemplos de enfermedades genéticas humanas son: el síndrome de Turner, la enfermedad de Huntington, el cáncer, el autismo y la anemia de células falciformes.

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Record 3 2003-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
OBS

The gene for Huntington's disease is dominant. Anyone who carries it eventually develops the disease. But not all genetic disorders are so clear-cut. The genes for cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia, for instance, are recessive : it takes two copies, one from each parent, to produce the disease. If both your parents carry the gene, you have one chance in four of developing the disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
OBS

[Quand on parle de dominance on parle d'un] type d'interaction entre deux gènes allèles dont l'un est qualifié de dominant et l'autre de récessif, qui aboutit pour l'hétérozygote à un phénotype plus ou moins semblable à celui de l'homozygote pour l'allèle dominant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
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