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Glossary Term
Glossary Term Karyotype
Definition A description of the condensed chromosomes of a eukaryote as they are seen at metaphase. Additional details are revealed by a variety of staining techniques that produce banded chromosomes. See the idiogram of the mouse karyotype at the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington.
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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