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![[-- genetic marker --]](Images/Terms/genetica.gif)
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A segment of DNA with an identifiable physical location on a chromosome and whose inheritance can be followed. A marker can be a gene, or it can be some section of DNA with no known function. Because DNA segments that lie near each other on a chromosome tend to be inherited together, markers are often used as indirect ways of tracking the inheritance pattern of a gene that has not yet been identified, but whose approximate location is known.
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Listen to a detailed explanation.
Dr. Robert Nussbaum, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, defines genetic marker. |
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chromosome, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), gene, inherited | |
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