mosaicism
/moh-zey-uh-siz-uhm/US // moʊˈzeɪ əˌsɪz əm //
镶嵌性,镶嵌式,嵌合性,嵌套主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Biology.
- : a condition in which an organism or part is composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues owing to experimental manipulation or to faulty distribution of genetic material during mitosis.
Examples
Not too long after the UCSD team published its paper about mosaicism in the brain, Gage had struck upon another phenomenon that could explain how genetic diversity arises in the nervous system.
They devised a plan to look for different mechanisms for mosaicism using the same set of brain samples.
While it’s still too early to say how mosaic gene mutations in the brain might influence schizophrenia, there’s a growing list of brain conditions where mosaicism really does seem to have a role.
There’s a growing list of brain conditions where mosaicism really does seem to have a role.
The woman’s doctors were unsure whether her mosaicism was a factor in her psychiatric disorder.
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