Glossary
This glossary is combined from five web-based glossaries and each entry is marked accordingly: (1) the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), (2) the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), (3) the talking glossary at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), (4) the SMART database, and (5) the protein folds glossary from the Structural Classification of Proteins website (SCOP) (these entries are modified). Additional web-based glossaries are listed in a table at the end of this glossary.
The glossaries are online at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/BLASTinfo/glossary2.html- http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/glossary/
- http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm
- http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/help/smart_glossary.shtml
- http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/gloss.html
A
Additive genetic effects
When the combined effects of alleles at different loci are equal to the sum of their individual effects. (ORNL)
Adenine (A)
A nitrogenous base, one member ...
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