Familial hypercholesterolemia is caused by failure of mutant low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors to reach the plasma membrane. [Discussion] ...
Familial Pertaining to the family group.
FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) A physical mapping approach that uses fluorescein tags to detect hybridization of probes with metaphase chromosomes and with the less-condensed somatic ...
Familial trait A trait which is more common in the relatives of an affected person.
Familial hypercholesterolemia A disease that results from the dysfunctional receptor-mediated endocytosis of cholesterol-bearing lipoprotein particles.
Familial aggregation studies: Is there a genetic component to the disease, and what are the relative contributions of genes and environment?
Segregation studies: What is the pattern of inheritance of the disease (e.g. dominant or recessive)?
FAP familial adenomatous polyposis
FASEB Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
FCM flow cytometry
FEBS Fed. of Eur. Biochem. Soc.
FISH fluorescence in situ hybridization ...
Three other cancers associated with defects in tumor suppressor genes include familial adenomatous polyposis of the colon (FPC), which results from mutations to both copies of the APC gene; hereditary breast cancer, ...
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the names for two different genes that are associated with inherited or familial breast cancer.
(Science: disease) An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, ...
Colchicine is FDA-approved for the treatment of gout and also for familial Mediterranean fever, amyloidosis, and scleroderma. Side-effects include gastro-intestinal upset and neutropenia.
learn the concepts and techniques behind DNA profiling
interpret DNA autoradiograms
evaluate DNA profiles to determine familial relationships ...
In shorter repeats like di- and tri-nucleotide repeats, the number of repeating units can occasionally change during evolution and descent. They are thus useful markers for familial relationships and have been used in paternity testing, ...
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