- 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: BECKER, W. M., HARDIN, J., KLEINSMITH, L. J. y A. ARBOR. (2006). El mundo de la célula, Pearson (6ª ed.)
- Definition: EMERY, A. E. H. (2009). Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona. Elsevier.
- Context: CELADA, A. (1991). “Factores de transcripción y control de la expresión génica”. En Investigación y ciencia (nº 179, págs. 42-51), ISSN 0210-136X.
- Expression: EMERY, A. E. H. (2009). Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona. Elsevier.
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