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Pediatric arthritis
See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
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- Restriction fragment length polymorphism A difference in DNA between people that can be recognized by the use of a restriction enzyme. Referred to as…
- Modelling, chromatin See: Chromatin remodeling
- Asplenia The absence of a spleen or one that functions. (The spleen can be functionally destroyed, as occurs in…
- Philippine hemorrhagic fever A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage…
- Crohn's disease Crohn's disease: A chronic inflammatory disease, primarily involving the small and large intestine, but which…
- Eye color The color of the iris. The genetics of eye color are complicated. Eye color is polygenic. It is determined by…
- Aleut health See: Artic health
- Jackson Laboratory The premiere place for mouse genetics and the largest mammalian genetic research facility in the world. Many…
- Central core disease See: Central core disease of muscle
- Genome, mitochondrial All of the genetic information contained in the chromosome of the mitochondrion, a structure located in the…
- Cochleae The plural of cochlea