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English
Etymology
From acro- + -centric.
Adjective
acrocentric (comparative more acrocentric, superlative most acrocentric)
- (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
Translations
having the centromere near an end
Noun
acrocentric (plural acrocentrics)
- A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper22.