- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Université d'Artois
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 39
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Marie-Hélène GARCIA, Marta SERNA GIL, Regina CAVA GARCÍA
- Creation / modification date: 02-03-2014
- Term: inversion
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Condition in which a chromosome segment is clipped out, turned upside down, and reinserted back into the chromosome.
- Context: Recombinant chromosome as a result of pericentric inversion of X chromosome.
- Expression: Chromosome inversion
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2008). Taschenatlas. Humangenetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 374.
- Definition: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2008). Taschenatlas. Humangenetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 138.
- Context: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 38.