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  2. Chromosome abnormality - Wikipedia

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    Chromosome abnormality. A chromosomal abnormality, chromosomal anomaly, chromosomal aberration, chromosomal mutation, or chromosomal disorder is a missing, extra, or irregular portion of chromosomal DNA. [1][2] These can occur in the form of numerical abnormalities, where there is an atypical number of chromosomes, or as structural ...

  3. Genetic algorithm - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to generate high-quality solutions to optimization and search problems by relying on biologically inspired ...

  4. Mutation (genetic algorithm) - Wikipedia

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    Mutation is a genetic operator used to maintain genetic diversity of the chromosomes of a population of a genetic or, more generally, an evolutionary algorithm (EA). It is analogous to biological mutation. The classic example of a mutation operator of a binary coded genetic algorithm (GA) involves a probability that an arbitrary bit in a ...

  5. Crossover (genetic algorithm) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, crossover, also called recombination, is a genetic operator used to combine the genetic information of two parents to generate new offspring.

  6. X-linked recessive inheritance - Wikipedia

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    X-linked recessive inheritance. X-linked recessive inheritance is a mode of inheritance in which a mutation in a gene on the X chromosome causes the phenotype to be always expressed in males (who are necessarily hemizygous for the gene mutation because they have one X and one Y chromosome) and in females who are homozygous for the gene mutation, see zygosity.

  7. Chromosomal rearrangement - Wikipedia

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    In genetics, a chromosomal rearrangement is a mutation that is a type of chromosome abnormality involving a change in the structure of the native chromosome. [1] Such changes may involve several different classes of events, like deletions, duplications, inversions, and translocations. Usually, these events are caused by a breakage in the DNA ...

  8. Mutation rate - Wikipedia

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    The human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10 −9 per basepair per year. [ 1 ] In genetics, the mutation rate is the frequency of new mutations in a single gene, nucleotide sequence, or organism over time. [ 2 ] Mutation rates are not constant and are not limited to a single type of mutation; there are many different types of ...

  9. Derivative chromosome - Wikipedia

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    A derivative chromosome (der) is a structurally rearranged chromosome generated either by a chromosome rearrangement involving two or more chromosomes or by multiple chromosome aberrations within a single chromosome (e.g. an inversion and a deletion of the same chromosome, or deletions in both arms of a single chromosome). [1] The term always ...