the short arm of a chromosome
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row
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The terminal short arm band of human chromosome 16 (16p13.3) is syntenic with three different mouse chromosomes (11, 16, and 17). At least 8 loci define the syntenic overlap between human 16 and mouse 17.
Achondroplasia -- the most common and well known form of short limbed dwarfism characterized by a normal trunk size with disproportionally short arms and legs, and a disproportionally large head; autosomal dominant condition.
Cri du chat, which is caused by the deletion of part of the short arm of chromosome 5. "Cri du chat" means "cry of the cat" in French, and the condition was so-named because affected babies make high-pitched cries that sound like those of a cat.
Mouse chromosomes tend to be acrocentric; that is, the centromere connects one long and one very short arm.
A centromere is a constricted region of a chromosome that separates it into a short arm (p) and a long arm (q). During cell division, the chromosomes first replicate so that each daughter cell receives a complete set of chromosomes.
Centric fusion: Fusion of the long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes [13,14,15,21,22] into a single chromosome having lost the short arms at the same time. Most often occurs as 21/21, 13/14, and 14/21 translocations.
p in cytogenetics, the short arm of a chromosome, in biochemistry, protein as in p16 (a 16 kilodalton protein), in population genetics often used for the frequency of the most common of the possible alleles at a locus. (see q) ...
A designation for the short arm of a chromosome.
Chromosome region q
A designation for the long arm of a chromosome.
... is the smallest of the five acrocentric chromosomes, the short arm of which (21p) ... 21p and its extensive homology with other acrocentric chromosomes have ...
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A chromosome whose centromere divides the chromosome into a long arm and a short arm.
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