The expression ofGRB10was globally influenced by the fetal genome. The expression of three other genes (AMPD3,CITED1,H19) was exclusively influenced by the female fetal genome. The expression ofAMPD3increased in the endometrium associated with female fetuses inheriting a MS paternal genome compared...
Do female and male autosomal chromosomes have the same alleles? Chromosomes: The human genome is comprised of 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes in each cell. While only one pair are sex chromosomes, the other 22 pairs are autosomes. ...
What are lethal alleles in the gene pool? Alleles: Alleles are the various copies of a gene that one can inherit from each parent. Most organisms have two copies of each gene, allowing for one allele from the mother and one allele from the father. The expression of these genes depends on...
El Saghir et al. assessed 250 Lebanese women with breast cancer, considered to be at high risk of carrying mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 tumour suppressor genes, due to presentation of the disease at a young age
In many taxa, sex chromosomes are heteromorphic and largely non-recombining. Evolutionary models predict that spread of recombination suppression on the Y chromosome is fueled by the accumulation of sexually antagonistic alleles in close linkage to the s
(Pathology) an inheritable disease of the exocrine glands, controlled by a recessive gene: affected children inherit defective alleles from both parents. It is characterized by chronic infection of the respiratory tract and by pancreatic insufficiency ...
In the absence of other heirs, the dependent persons inherit all the property of the deceased. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren are statutory heirs if at the time of the death of the decedent a parent who would have been an heir is no longer alive; they inherit equal portions of the ...
Homozygous: You inherit the same version of the gene from each parent, so you have two matching genes. Heterozygous: You inherit a different version of a gene
Trans arrangement of positive alleles has previously been linked with transgressive segregation of traits from an inter- specific cross of tomato; 59a phenomenon which was observed for both chlorophyll and carotenoids in the present investigation of lettuce. Co-location of QTL for total chlorophyll and...
(Pathology) an inheritable disease of the exocrine glands, controlled by a recessive gene: affected children inherit defective alleles from both parents. It is characterized by chronic infection of the respiratory tract and by pancreatic insufficiency Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged,...