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Primary cell

Definition
AI-generated

Cells isolated directly from tissue with limited division capacity; contrast with immortalized cell lines.

Topics
Molecular biology
Related
Cell Line Phenotype Transcriptome

Why it matters in GWAS

These concepts shape how we expect variants to act (penetrance, heterogeneity, threshold models) and how GWAS signals should be interpreted alongside family-based evidence.

Example usage

"Downstream interpretation uses Primary cell to connect statistical signals with biological context."

Cell Line Phenotype Transcriptome
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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