- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 102
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Augustine Edith EMENE, Susana ALVAREZ ALVAREZ
- Creation / modification date: 04-02-2014
- Term: dominant
- Gramatical category: adj
- Definition: (1) (Of, or pertaining to) An allele or a gene that is expressed in an organism’s phenotype, masking the effect of the recessive allele or gene when present. (2) (Of, or pertaining to) An organism that expresses the dominant gene (or allele).
- Context: A trait which is determined by a gene on an autosome is said to be inherited as an autosomal trait and may be dominant or recessive.
- Expression: dominant disorder, dominant trait, dominant gene
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: abr, LOD es sigla de logarithm (base 10) of odds) Fuente: U.S. National Library of Medicine, Genetics Home Reference. May 13, 2013. [Online], Available on: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=lodscore, [Date consulted] 11/05/13
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 173)
- Definition: http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Dominant
- Context: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 173)
- Expression: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 173); NOPOLA-HEMMIA, J. et al. (2001) “A dominant gene for developmental dyslexia on chromosome 3”, J Med Genet, 38: p. 658.
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