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CHROMOSOMAL

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a chromosome

Example:

chromosomal defect

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

chromosome (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order)

Derivation:

chromosome (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order)

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 Context examples: 

A patient with infantile sacrococcygeal teratoma was found to have a balanced chromosomal translocation t(12;15)(q13;q25) which fuses this gene and the SENP1 gene.

(MESDC2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation which fuses exon 1 of the MESDC2 gene with exon 3 of the SENP1 gene.

(MESDC2/SENP1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A chromosomal translocation t(1;22)(p13;q13) with the RBM15 gene is associated with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.

(MKL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A numerical chromosomal abnormality characterized by the presence of copy number variations in less than five percent of chromosomal arms.

(Minimal Aneuploidy, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(11;19)(q23;p13.1) which fuses the first 7 exons of the MLL gene to most of the coding sequence of the ELL gene.

(MLL/ELL Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(9;11)(q34;q23) which fuses exon 7 of the MLL gene to most of the FNBP1 gene.

(MLL/FNBP1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(9;11)(p22;q23) which fuses the 5' half of the MLL gene to the 3' end of the MLLT3 gene.

(MLL/MLLT3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(1;11)(q21;q23) which fuses the first 6 exons of the MLL gene to the 5' untranslated region of the MLLT11 gene.

(MLL/MLLT11 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(6;11)(q27;q23) which fuses the 5' half of the MLL gene to most of the MLLT4 gene.

(MLL/MLLT4 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(11;12)(q23;q13) which fuses exon 9 of the MLL gene to most of the SARNP gene.

(MLL/SARNP Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)