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tri·nu·cleo·tide (tri-nooґkle-o-tīd) a polymer made up of three mononucleotides.Medical dictionary. 2011.
Trinucleotide repeat disorder — Trinucleotide repeat disorders (also known as trinucleotide repeat expansion disorders, triplet repeat expansion disorders or codon reiteration disorders) are a set of genetic disorders caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion, a kind of mutation … Wikipedia
Trinucleotide repeat expansion — Trinucleotide repeat expansion= Trinucleotide repeat expansion, also known as triplet repeat expansion, is the DNA mutation responsible for causing any type of disorder categorized as a trinucleotide repeat disorder. These are labelled in… … Wikipedia
trinucleotide repeat — Tandem repeats of three nucleotides that are present in many genes. Commonly trinucleotide repeats have undergone variable expansion in copy number, forming the basis of microsatellite markers, and occasionally resulting in the formation of… … Glossary of Biotechnology
trinucleotide — noun Date: 1918 a nucleotide consisting of three mononucleotides in combination ; codon … New Collegiate Dictionary
trinucleotide — /truy nooh klee euh tuyd , nyooh /, n. Genetics. three linked nucleotides; triplet. [1915 20; TRI + NUCLEOTIDE] * * * … Universalium
trinucleotide — noun a codon containing three nucleotides … Wiktionary
trinucleotide — tri·nucleotide … English syllables
trinucleotide — tri•nu•cle•o•tide [[t]traɪˈnu kli əˌtaɪd, ˈnyu [/t]] n. biochem. gen three linked nucleotides; triplet • Etymology: 1915–20 … From formal English to slang
trinucleotide — “+ noun Etymology: tri + nucleotide : a nucleotide consisting of three mononucleotides in combination * * * /truy nooh klee euh tuyd , nyooh /, n. Genetics. three linked nucleotides; triplet. [1915 20; TRI + NUCLEOTIDE] … Useful english dictionary
trinucleotide repeat — Repetitive part of a genome that may form part of the coding sequence of a gene. The length of such repeats is frequently polymorphic, and unstably amplified repeats appear to be the major cause of such genetic diseases as Huntington s chorea,… … Dictionary of molecular biology
