- Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 125
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Isaac MORENO RUIZ, Patricia ROJO DE DOMINGO, Rosario HERRERO, Susana ALVAREZ ALVAREZ
- Creation / modification date: 02-02-2014
- Term: tandem repeat(s)
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A tandem repeat (is a type of DNA polymorphism where sequences of DNA are repeated.
- Context: Tandem repeat arrays showing variation between sequences within a population, between strains or across species may have functional effects. The increasing availability of genomic sequence data makes routine description of observed variation possible, creating a need for tools to describe such variability.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A. (2009), Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona: Ed. Elsevier, 13ª Edición (revisión científica a cargo del Dr. Rafael Oliva Virgili).
- Definition: DORLAND B. Diccionario enciclopédico ilustrado de medicina (2 vols.). Madrid: McGraw-Hill; 1992.
- Context: SOTO, J. et al. (2011) Tecnologías bioinformáticas para el análisis de secuencias de ADN [en línea]. Consultado el 28 de enero de 2014. Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84922625020. ISSN 0122-1701
See this term in
