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Descriptor English: Chromosome Fragility
Descriptor Spanish: Fragilidad Cromosómica
Descriptor fragilidad cromosómica
Scope note: Susceptibilidad de los cromosomas para romperse, lo que provoca traslocación, INVERSIÓN CROMOSÓMICA, ELIMINACIÓN DE SECUENCIAS, u otras aberraciones relacionadas con la ROTURA CROMOSÓMICA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fragilidade Cromossômica
Descriptor French: Fragilité des chromosomes
Entry term(s): Chromosomal Fragility
Fragility, Chromosomal
Fragility, Chromosome
Tree number(s): C23.550.210.110.180
C23.550.362.180.180
G05.365.590.175.165.180
G05.370.180.180
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002873
Scope note: Susceptibility of chromosomes to breakage leading to translocation; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SEQUENCE DELETION; or other CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE related aberrations.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Chromosome Aberrations (1968-1981)
Chromosomes (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 82
History Note: 82
Related: Chromosome Breakage MeSH
Chromosome Fragile Sites MeSH
Fragile X Syndrome MeSH
Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion MeSH
DeCS ID: 2922
Unique ID: D002873
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1982/01/01
Date of Entry: 1981/02/23
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Chromosome Fragility - Preferred
Concept UI M0004411
Scope note Susceptibility of chromosomes to breakage leading to translocation; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; SEQUENCE DELETION; or other CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE related aberrations.
Preferred term Chromosome Fragility
Entry term(s) Chromosomal Fragility
Fragility, Chromosomal
Fragility, Chromosome



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