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Descriptor English: Chromosome Inversion
Descriptor Spanish: Inversión Cromosómica
Descriptor inversión cromosómica
Entry term(s) inversión en los cromosomas
Scope note: Aberración en la que falta un segmento de un cromosoma que se reinserta en el mismo lugar pero con un giro de 180 grados con respecto a su orientación original, de modo que la secuencia del gen en el segmento está invertida con respecto a la del resto del cromosoma.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inversão Cromossômica
Descriptor French: Inversion chromosomique
Entry term(s): Chromosomal Inversion
Chromosomal Inversions
Chromosome Inversions
Inversion, Chromosomal
Inversion, Chromosome
Inversions, Chromosomal
Inversions, Chromosome
Tree number(s): C23.550.210.190
G05.365.590.175.190
G05.365.590.770.500
G05.558.805.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007446
Scope note: An aberration in which a chromosomal segment is deleted and reinserted in the same place but turned 180 degrees from its original orientation, so that the gene sequence for the segment is reversed with respect to that of the rest of the chromosome.
Allowable Qualifiers: CI chemically induced
CL classification
DE drug effects
EM embryology
GE genetics
RE radiation effects
SN statistics & numerical data
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Chromosome Aberrations (1968-1974)
Chromosome Abnormalities (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 2005; see INVERSION, CHROMOSOME 2005-2009, see INVERSION (GENETICS) 1978-2004, see CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS 1969-1977
History Note: 2010 (1969)
DeCS ID: 7607
Unique ID: D007446
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/01/15
Chromosome Inversion - Preferred
Concept UI M0011620
Scope note An aberration in which a chromosomal segment is deleted and reinserted in the same place but turned 180 degrees from its original orientation, so that the gene sequence for the segment is reversed with respect to that of the rest of the chromosome.
Preferred term Chromosome Inversion
Entry term(s) Chromosomal Inversion
Chromosomal Inversions
Chromosome Inversions
Inversion, Chromosomal
Inversion, Chromosome
Inversions, Chromosomal
Inversions, Chromosome



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