Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 88
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Ana María MALLO LAPUERTA, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Teresa AMIDO LOZANO
Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
Term: expressivity
Gramatical category: s
Definition: Capacity of a gene to affect the phenotype of the organism of which it is a part. It is used to characterise the degree or variance of a genetic trait.
Context: Another measure for describing the range of phenotypic expression is called expressivity. Expressivity measures the extent to which a given genotype is expressed at the phenotypic level. [...] llustrates the distinction between penetrance and expressivity. Like penetrance, expressivity is integral to the concept of the norm of reaction.
Expression: Variable expressivity.
Weighting mark: nor
Remission: anton, introns Fuente: Lister Hill national Center for Biomedical Communications et ali (2013). „Exon“, Genetics Home Reference. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=exon