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  • Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
  • Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
  • Identification number: 107
  • Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
  • Author/s: Diana MOŢOC, Gema GUNTIÑAS FRAU, Rosario HERRERO, Sara LOZANO DIONISIO, Verónica ARNÁIZ UZQUIZA
  • Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
  • Term: Robertsonian translocations
  • Gramatical category: s
  • Definition: Whole-arm rearrangements between the acrocentric chromosomes 13-15, 21 and 22, that constitute the most common chromosomal rearrangements in humans.
  • Context: A carrier of Robertsonian translocation is phenotypically normal, because the translocation chromosome contains nearly all the genetic material of the long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes.
  • Expression: Robertsonian translation carrier, unbalanced Robertsonian translocation
  • Weighting mark: nor
  • Sources:
    • Term: http://www.embryology.ch/francais/ kchromaber/abweichende03.html
    • Definition: http://www.embryology.ch/francais/ kchromaber/abweichende03.html
    • Context: http://www.embryology.ch/francais/ kchromaber/abweichende03.html
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    • Robertsonian translocations
      Tissot, R. & Kaufman, E. “Human Genetics: Chromosomal Inheritance”, University of Illinois at Chicago:
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