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Definition of Linkage group
1. Noun. Any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together. "The genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups"
Medical Definition of Linkage group
1. A set of two or more loci that have been shown by linkage analysis to be physically close in the genome but that have not yet been assigned to specific chromosomes. It is rapidly becoming an outmoded term. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linkage Group
Literary usage of Linkage group
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biotechnology of Algae: A Bibliography by Virginia Stone (1992)
"Molecular Studies of linkage group XIX of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Evidence
Against a Basal Body Location Johnson, DE and Dutcher, SK Source: THE JOURNAL ..."
2. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"In another linkage group, no crossovers have been observed between green foliage
color and two-celled fruit, as opposed to yellow foliage color and ..."
3. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"(1996) consider a single linkage group. (The method can be extended to several
linkage groups in a straightforward way.) Consider n progeny. ..."
4. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"... definitely assigned to the pair of sex-chromosomes; and Morgan further believes
that the factors for the two characters of the small linkage group are ..."
5. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"2) Test the loci G in group 3 and Df2 in linkage group 6 with the F and Rjl loci
in linkage group II. 3) Determine the genetic recombination frequency ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"they belong to the same linkage group, in both species. Since this happens to be
the sex- linked group it means in reality that three corresponding ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"... depending on whether only one chromosome pair or linkage group is involved,
or more than one, and whether the chromosomes concerned are behaving in ..."
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