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Descriptor English: Mosaicism
Descriptor Spanish: Mosaicismo
Descriptor mosaicismo
Scope note: Ocurrencia en un individuo de dos o más poblaciones celulares con diferente composición cromosómica, derivadas de un único CIGOTO, en contraposición al QUIMERISMO en el que las diferentes poblaciones celulares derivan de más de un cigoto.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mosaicismo
Descriptor French: Mosaïcisme
Tree number(s): G05.365.590.175.595
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009030
Scope note: The occurrence in an individual of two or more cell populations of different chromosomal constitutions, derived from a single ZYGOTE, as opposed to CHIMERISM in which the different cell populations are derived from more than one zygote.
Allowable Qualifiers: CI chemically induced
CL classification
DE drug effects
EM embryology
RE radiation effects
SN statistics & numerical data
VE veterinary
Public MeSH Note: 67
History Note: 67(64)
Related: Chimerism MeSH
Mice, Transgenic MeSH
DeCS ID: 9221
Unique ID: D009030
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1967/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Mosaicism - Preferred
Concept UI M0014087
Scope note The occurrence in an individual of two or more cell populations of different chromosomal constitutions, derived from a single ZYGOTE, as opposed to CHIMERISM in which the different cell populations are derived from more than one zygote.
Preferred term Mosaicism



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