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A chromosome complement in one line.
Also known as: Cytogenetic notation
The standardised string notation describing a cell's chromosome complement and its abnormalities.
Describes a chromosome complement and its abnormalities as a single standardised string.
Contexts: Medicine, Laboratory
Compresses a whole cytogenetic finding into one machine-comparable line, so laboratories in different countries produce strings that can be compared character by character.
Contexts: Medicine, Laboratory
Band designations are read outward from the centromere, so the numbering has a direction that must be known before the string can be located on a chromosome.
Contexts: Medicine, Laboratory
A single line beginning with the chromosome count and the sex chromosomes, followed by comma-separated terms naming each abnormality by chromosome, arm, region and band.