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  • Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
  • Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
  • Identification number: 136
  • Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
  • Author/s: Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Lucia UDRESCU, Marta VALDENEBRO ARENAS
  • Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
  • Term: pleiotropic gene
  • Gramatical category: s
  • Definition: A gene with multiple effects is said to be pleiotropic.
  • Context: These results demonstrate how the functional diversification of the modular CREs of pleiotropic genes contributes to evolutionary novelty and the independent evolution of morphological similarities.
  • Weighting mark: nor
  • Remission: abr, RFLPs. Source: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition (p. 36).
  • Sources:
    • Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
    • Definition: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
    • Context: PRUD'HOMME, Benjamin, et al. "Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene." Nature 440.7087 (2006): 1050-1053.
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