Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Valladolid
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 178
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Augustine Edith EMENE, Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Isaac MORENO RUIZ, Sara LOZANO DIONISIO, Susana ALVAREZ ALVAREZ
Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
Term: nucleotide
Gramatical category: s
Definition: One of the compounds into which nucleic acid is split by action of nuclease; nucleotides are composed of a base (purine or pyrimidine), a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), and a phosphate group.
Context: We determined allele frequencies and population differentiation for 101 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 30 genes involved in major metabolic and disease-relevant pathways in Puerto Ricans (n = 969, ages 45–75 years) and compared them to similarly aged non-Hispanic whites (NHW) (n = 597).
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: Gobierno de España. Ministerio de Educación (2014). La materia viva. Recuperado el 13 de enero de 2014, de http://recursos.cnice.mec.es/biosfera/alumno/2bachillerato/ biomol/contenidos18.htm
Context: DE LA PUENTE GARCÍA, R. (2012). Mapa genético y análisis de secuencias nucleotídicas de interés en Lens. [Tesis de maestría no publicada]. León: Universidad de León.
Images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleotide_nucleoside_general.svg (abgerufen im August 2013)