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Gene

Definition
AI-generated

A heritable unit encoding functional products (often proteins or functional RNAs) with regulatory sequence; maps to a genomic locus.

Topics
Core genetics
Related
Locus Allele Genotype

Why it matters in GWAS

GWAS maps association to loci; translating hits to mechanisms requires knowing what a gene is (boundaries, isoforms, regulatory context).

Example usage

"At this locus, Gene annotations were used to prioritize plausible biological mechanisms."

Locus Allele Genotype
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Griffiths AJF, et al. (2015). An Introduction to Genetic Analysis. W. H. Freeman.
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