- Institution/s: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 174
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Augustine Edith EMENE, Beatriz BURGOS CUADRILLERO, Judit MATEO CARRETERO, Verónica ARNÁIZ UZQUIZA
- Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
- Term: anticipation
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Phenomenon that refers to the observation of an increase in severity, and/or decrease in age of onset, of a condition in successive generations of a family.
- Context: The founder mutation would then be expected to have occurred de novo in a preceding generation, but, due to anticipation, not resulted in disease until one or two further generations had passed.
- Expression: maternal anticipation, genetic anticipation
- 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: http://www.unav.es/genetica/glosario/glosarioAB.html; http://www.masdermatologia.com/PDF/0048.pdf
- Context: ARCOS, M., PALACIO, L.G. et. al. (1999). “Anticipación genética en epilepsia idiopática”. En: Revista de neurología, 29, 597. Recuperado el 11 de noviembre de 2013 de: http://www.neurologia.com/pdf/Web/2907/h070597.pdf
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