- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 88
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Ana María MALLO LAPUERTA, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Teresa AMIDO LOZANO
- Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
- Term: expressivity
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Capacity of a gene to affect the phenotype of the organism of which it is a part. It is used to characterise the degree or variance of a genetic trait.
- Context: Another measure for describing the range of phenotypic expression is called expressivity. Expressivity measures the extent to which a given genotype is expressed at the phenotypic level. [...] llustrates the distinction between penetrance and expressivity. Like penetrance, expressivity is integral to the concept of the norm of reaction.
- Expression: Variable expressivity.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: anton, introns Fuente: Lister Hill national Center for Biomedical Communications et ali (2013). „Exon“, Genetics Home Reference. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=exon
- Sources:
- Term: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2009). Taschenbuch Biologie Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 4.
- Definition: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2009). Taschenbuch Biologie Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 4.
- Context: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2008). Taschenatlas Humangenetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 150.
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