Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
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- noun genetics Any
chromosome other thansex chromosomes .
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- noun any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa
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Examples
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I thought also that he should have defined such terms as autosome, metastasis, meiosis, and maybe even facultative as it is used in biology.
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A2; the locus is assumed to be on an autosome, not a sex chromosome.
Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006
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They also wondered if the X chromosome showed difference patterns of population genetic substructure than the autosome, so they compared the X with chromosome 16 using frappe.
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Our next goal is to find out through linkage analysis whether or not the aberrant phenotype is caused by a mutated sex-linked or autosomal gene and, if autosomal, on which autosome the defective gene is located.
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I can't understand why the Hazara or Uyghur would be more East Asian on the X than the autosome from history though.
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Additionally, it is evident from comparing the high δ SNPs with the total number of SNPs on the autosome and X that the X is enriched for between population differences in allele frequency.
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This paper looks at loci on the autosome, as well as the Y chromosome.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan none@example.com 2010
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The ratio of human X chromosome to autosome diversity is positively correlated with genetic distance from genes
Discover Blogs 2010
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This paper looks at loci on the autosome, as well as the Y chromosome.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan none@example.com 2010
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If the X chromosome always is assumed to have a smaller effective population size, then it would be more strongly shaped by these dynamics than the autosome.
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