- 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: TARIVERDIAN, Gholamali, BUSELMAIER, Werner (2007). Humangenetik. 4. neubearb. Aufl. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 398.
- Definition: TARIVERDIAN, Gholamali, BUSELMAIER, Werner (2007). Humangenetik. 4. neubearb. Aufl. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 398.
- Context: SEYFFERT, Wilhelm (Hrsg.) (2003). Lehrbuch der Genetik. Berlin: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 531.
- Images:
Tissot, R. & Kaufman, E. “Human Genetics: Chromosomal Inheritance”, University of Illinois at Chicago:
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