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Genetic terms

adenine
adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA)
adenovirus
Alagille syndrome
allele
amino acids
animal model
antibody
antisense
apoptosis
ataxia-telangiectasia
Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS)
autosomal dominant
autosome

bacteria
bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)
base pair
birth defect
bone marrow transplantation
BRCA1/BRCA2

cancer
candidate gene
carcinoma
carrier
cDNA library
cell
centimorgan
centromere
chromosome
cloning
codon
congenital
contig
craniosynostosis
cystic fibrosis
cytogenetic map
cytosine
 

 

deletion
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
diabetes mellitus
diploid
DNA replication
DNA sequencing
dominant
double helix
duplication

electrophoresis
Ellis - van Creveld syndrome
enzyme
exon

familial Mediterranean fever
fibroblasts
fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
Fragile X syndrome

gene
gene amplification
gene expression
gene mapping
gene pool
gene therapy
gene transfer
genetic code (ATGC)
genetic counseling
genetic map
genetic marker
genetic screening
genome

 

genotype
germ line
guanine

haploid
haploinsufficiency
hematopoietic stem cell
hemophilia
heterozygous
highly conserved sequence
Hirschsprung's disease
holoprosencephaly
homologous recombination
homozygous
human artificial chromosome (HAC)
Human Genome Project
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Huntington's disease
hybridization
 
immunotherapy
in situ hybridization
inherited
insertion
intellectual property rights
intron
 
karyotype
knockout
 
leukemia
library
linkage
locus
LOD score
lymphocyte
 
malformation
mapping
marker
melanoma
Mendel, Johann (Gregor)
Mendelian inheritance
messenger RNA (mRNA)
metaphase
microarray technology
microsatellite
mitochondrial DNA
monosomy
mouse model
multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1 (MEN1)
mutation
 
neurofibromatosis
Niemann-Pick disease, type C (NPC)
non-coding DNA
non-directiveness
nonsense mutation
Northern blot
nucleotide
nucleus

oligo
oncogene
 

 

oncovirus

p53
Parkinson's disease
patent
pedigree
peptide
phenotype
physical map
polydactyly
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
polymorphism
positional cloning
primary immunodeficiency
primer
probe
promoter
pronucleus
prostate cancer
protease
protein
pseudogene
 
recessive
recombinant DNA
repressor
restriction enzymes
restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)
retrovirus
ribonucleic acid (RNA)
ribosome
risk communication
 


sequence-tagged site (STS)
severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
sex chromosome
sex-linked
shotgun sequencing
sickle cell disease
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
somatic cells
Southern blot
spectral karyotype (SKY)
substitution
suicide gene
syndrome

technology transfer
thymine
transgenic
translocation
trisomy
tumor suppressor gene

uracil

vector

Western blot
Wolfram syndrome

yeast artificial chromosome (YAC)
 
 

 

 

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