- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 138
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Laura SANJUÁN LANCHO, Lucia UDRESCU
- Creation / modification date: 28-02-2014
- Term: pericentric inversion
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A reversal of a segment of the chromosome that involves the centromeric region.
- Context: In the following example a pericentric inversion generates a metacentric chromosome from an acrocentric chromosome.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: http://cvirtuel.cochin.univ-paris5.fr/cytogen/2-1.htm
- Definition: http://cvirtuel.cochin.univ-paris5.fr/cytogen/2-1.htm
- Context: http://umvf.univ-nantes.fr/genetique-medicale/enseignement/genetique_19/site/html/1_12_121_1212_1.html
- Expression: http://umvf.univ-nantes.fr/genetique-medicale/enseignement/genetique_19/site/html/1_12_121_1212_1.html