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Genetics
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
When new nomenclature is presented, it often looks odd to practising biochemists and is not always ap- preciated. Even systems such as the one-letter codes for amino acids, which have been ...
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Human Chromosomes
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Chromosomes are dark-staining, threadlike structures in the cell nucleus composed of DNA and chromatin that carry genetic information (definition after Nussbaum et al and Mueller and Young). ...
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Human Gene Nomenclature
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The International System for Human Gene Nomenclature (ISGN) was inaugurated in 1979, and has been continually updated. The Human Gene Mapping Nomenclature Committee, which developed the ISGN, put ...
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Nonhuman Genetic Terms
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
[T]he word mouse … comes originally from the Sanskrit mush derived from a verb meaning to steal. … Mice and rats, through their voracious activities in grain larders and as carriers of disease, ...
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Nucleic Acids and Amino Acids
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Standards for molecular nomenclature are set jointly by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The ...
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Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Cancer is caused by an accumulation of genetic alterations that confer a survival advantage to the neoplastic cell. J. L. Jameson(p73) Oncogenes are “[g]enes that normally play a role in growth ...
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Pedigrees
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Pedigree format recommendations are put forth by the Pedigree Standardization Task Force of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. (See also , Legal and Ethical Considerations, Protecting ...
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