- Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 53
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Isaac MORENO RUIZ, Judith CARRERA FERNÁNDEZ, Raluca RADAC, Rosario HERRERO
- Creation / modification date: 03-03-2014
- Term: Hardy-Weinberg principle
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A fundamental principle in population genetics stating that the genotype frequencies and gene frequencies of a large, randomly mating population remain constant provided immigration, mutation, and selection do not take place.
- Context: In this case the Hardy-Weinberg Principle assumes that in this population, the population is large and is not experiencing mutation, migration, natural selection, or sexual selection.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: fv, haplótipo (poco usual) Fuente: REAL ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE MEDICINA (2012). Diccionario de términos médicos. Madrid: Médica Panamericana.
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
- Definition: The American Heritage Science Dictionary. (2005). Consultado el 28 de enero de 2014
- Context: MATTEI, J. et al (2009) "Disparities in allele frequencies and population differentiation for 101 disease-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms between Puerto Ricans and non-Hispanic whites". Consultado el 28 de enero de 2014. Disponible en: http://iris.lib.neu.edu/bouve_fac_pubs/43/
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