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Contributors in Genetics
Genetics
Nutrigenomics
Biology; Genetics
The study of molecular relationships between nutrition and the response of genes, with the aim of understanding how genetics influences the affect of diet on health. Nutrigenomics focuses on the ...
Odds ratio
Biology; Genetics
A measure of relative risk or effect size that is usually estimated from case-control studies.
Penetrance
Biology; Genetics
The likelihood that a person carrying a mutation will develop the characteristics caused by that mutation.
Alternative splicing
Biology; Genetics
ifferent ways of removing introns from the RNA transcribed from genes, prior to translation into protein. This provides a mechanism for producing multiple different proteins from the same gene.
Amino acid
Biology; Genetics
A molecule containing both amino (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) groups. There are 20 different basic amino acids coded for by DNA and are the building blocks of proteins. The order of amino acids in a ...
Association analysis
Biology; Genetics
A method of genetic analysis that compares the frequency of alleles between affected and unaffected individuals; a given allele is considered to be associated with the disease if that allele occurs ...
