2011/12/20 by Robert C. Elston, Jaya M. Satagopan, Shuying Sun · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #Genomics and Rare Diseases #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
paper · doi:10.1007/978-1-61779-555-8_1
openalex publication_date 2011/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Common terms used in genetics with multiple meanings are explained and the terminology used in subsequent chapters is defined. Statistical Human Genetics has existed as a discipline for over a century, and during that time the meanings of many of the terms used have evolved, largely driven by molecular discoveries, to the point that molecular and statistical geneticists often have difficulty understanding each other. It is, therefore, imperative, now that so much of molecular genetics is becoming an in silico statistical science, that we have well-defined, common terminology.