Xiao L, Saldivar JS, Zhou C, Chen C, Zhang J, Sirois P, Li K. The updated concept of genome and its implications in biotechnological research and molecular diagnostics.
Mol Biotechnol 2008;
41:152-6. [PMID:
18802794 DOI:
10.1007/s12033-008-9105-0]
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Abstract
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We propose a short definition of
GENOME
The full complement of genetic materials possessed by an intracellular parasite, a cell, or an organism. Accordingly, the human genome is the entire complement of inherited genetic materials possessed by an individual person, or possessed by a cell in an individual person. For higher species, the genomic makeup includes DNA in the nucleus and in the organelles regardless of the number of chromosomes and the homoplasmic or heteroplasmic status of the mitochondrial or chloroplastic DNA. Practically, GENOME can be referred to at the molecular, cellular, individual, and species levels, which has various implications in biotechnological research and molecular diagnostics.
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