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Genetic linkage

Genetic linkage

(Science: genetics) The term refers to the fact that certain genes tend to be inherited together, because they are on the same chromosome. Thus parental combinations of characters are found more frequently in offspring than nonparental. Linkage is measured by the percentage recombination between loci, unlinked genes showing 50% recombination.

See: linkage equilibrium, linkage disequilibrium.


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Re: maping and linkage problems

Genetic linkage occurs when particular genetic loci or alleles for genes are inherited jointly. Genetic loci on the same ...

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by teachncljul09
Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:49 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: maping and linkage problems
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Views: 166

Does age affect dna?

Does the age of an individual affect the dna or the genetic material of his body? I mean, if we try to reconstruct the individual ... of that? Its said that the incidence of crossing over decreases with age and linkage increases! Does that make the dna unique for a particular age? Sorry for ...

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by prateeiik
Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:45 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Does age affect dna?
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Views: 648

Re:

Hi It seems that not so many people here interested in Population genetic anyway I have an other question Who know what does effective alleles ... be used as a genetic marker or there is no hope for this Loci to be in Linkage-disequilibrium with any other gene Maybe the gene can be in a linkage.. ...

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by F4T32008
Sun May 11, 2008 4:23 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: About Pop. genetic heterozygosity & HWE
Replies: 4
Views: 1299

About Pop. genetic heterozygosity & HWE

... fourth year Zoology science and I am so interested in population genetic and bioinformatics I read a lot of scientific articles in Population ... be used as a genetic marker or there is no hope for this Loci to be in Linkage-disequilibrium with any other gene i think this is enough for now ...

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by Proteinic
Tue May 06, 2008 3:41 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: About Pop. genetic heterozygosity & HWE
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Views: 1299

Genetic recombination

... goes into detail of Gregor Mendel's work, Punnett Squares, Meiosis, Linkage, and Gene Maps. I want to thank you in advance, and the question follows: Comparing and Contrasting: Suppose a plant geneticist uses true-breeding plants to make a two-factor cross involving genes ...

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by Blue_X511
Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:17 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Genetic recombination
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