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HETERODISOMY [3 records]

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Record 1 2013-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

[In uniparental disomy, ] both homologous chromosomes are inherited from only one of the parents in a diploid. If these two chromosomes are identical, the case is called isodisomy... if they are different :heterodisomy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

Présence, dans une cellule diploïde, de deux chromosomes homologues, non identiques, hérités de l'un des deux parents seulement.

OBS

hétérodisomie : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 18 septembre 2011.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Cytology
  • Molecular Biology
DEF

The presence in a cell of a pair of chromosomes of a specified kind.

OBS

The normal condition for a diploid cell is heterodisomy, where one member of each autosomal pair is of maternal and the other of paternal origin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Cytologie
  • Biologie moléculaire
DEF

Caractéristique des couples de chromosomes homologues dans le caryotype des cellules diploïdes.

Spanish

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

Presencia de dos cromosomas homólogos específicos.

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Record 3 1998-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

The detection of non-Mendelian inheritance in man. How to detect and interpret variation in gene structure or expression that does not or might not follow a Mendelian mode of inheritance : mitochondrial mutations(particularly when heteroplasmic) ;uniparental disomy(full or regional, heterodisomy, homodisomy, isodisomy, pseudodisomy) ;unstable DNA(including triplet repeat regions) ;imprinting; X chromosome inactivation mutations or effects; positional effects; cis-trans effects, singleton birth after regression of an MZ twin, chimerism, parthenogenesis, aneuploid reproduction and recombination, RNA editing, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
CONT

Chez un enfant né d'un ovule hétéroplasmique, certains tissus sont enrichis en ADN mitochondrial normal, tandis que d'autres sont enrichis en ADN muté.

Spanish

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