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Jun 1, 2011 15:12
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French term

série

French to English Science Genetics
Le génome humain contient des unités répétitives en *série* et en nombre variable.

Does this mean sequence ?

Thanks !
Proposed translations (English)
3 Sequence
3 sequence

Discussion

Odile Raymond (asker) Jun 6, 2011:
D'après l'expert, il s'agit de la description des "short tandem repeats", donc c'est bien "series" qu'il me faut.
Merci à tous !
Didier Fourcot Jun 3, 2011:
Séquence probablement Une "unité constituée de 4 paires de bases", c'est une séquence, à moins qu'on ne désigne comme séquence que celles considérées comme significative, mais ça revient à faire une distinction arbitraire entre celles dont on a prouvé la signification et celles pour lesquelles on n'a rien trouvé pour l'instant, qui ne serait pas très scientifique.
Le problème arrive parfois dans les articles scientifiques où l'auteur bien que spécialiste n'applique pas les règles de l'écriture technique 1 terme=1 notion
Odile Raymond (asker) Jun 1, 2011:
Merci !
L'auteur est un spécialiste du domaine.
Voici la phrase qui vient après : Ces unités sont transmises selon les lois mendéliennes de l'hérédité. ....Les unités répétitives sont constituées de 4 paires de base.
Plus loin, l'auteur parle de "séquences" quand il fait référence à l'étude de l'ADN mitochondrial.
Didier Fourcot Jun 1, 2011:
Qualité de la source? Séquence est un terme scientifique dans ce contexte, série ne l'est pas (unité est peut-être définir ailleurs?), et "répétitive en série" est un pléonasme: toute répétition définit une série

On pourrait comprendre "des unités répétitives de séquences en nombre variable" pour expliquer la redondance observée

Proposed translations

41 mins

Sequence

Declined
Sequence does seem to be the right word in this case!
Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsatellite_%28genetics%29

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/17/8487.abstract

Note from asker:
Thanks Sophie ! This is all very confusing but I think that what I need here is "series".
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37 mins

sequence

Declined
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ol8uU1x...
the above site talks about Short Tandem Repeats, in French
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:clw0UWr9tsUJ:infoh...

this site also discusses STRs, “sequence” does seem to be correct, IMHO.


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Note added at 39 mins (2011-06-01 15:51:20 GMT)
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Short tandem repeat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A short tandem repeat (STR) in DNA occurs when a pattern of two or more nucleotides are repeated and the repeated sequences are directly adjacent to each ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_tandem_repeat - Cached - Similar

I am unable to find anything at all convincing for "serial/series".

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Note added at 45 mins (2011-06-01 15:57:16 GMT)
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the only other thing I found where "series" was mentioned was with regard to

tandem repeats/arrays
Dictionary - Definition of tandem
Tandem array · Fisheries, Multiple copies of a sequence of DNA that are arranged one after another in series. Repeat units can be short nucleotide sequences ...
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/tandem

I think I have just found

repeat units that are arranged in series


so maybe this is what you need.

Please study research carefully:)

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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-06-01 19:59:17 GMT)
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J7Ow_3D...
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, provides the vital information for genetic inheritance by forming an immense sequence of codesmade up from four very simple base units. These four base units, known as nucleotides, string together to form a DNA strand millions of bases long. Within the four nucleotides there are two complementary base pairs that will only align with each other.
Science aid: DNA Structure and Replication, Polymerase Chain Reaction
DNA is made up of repeating units called nucleotides they are made up of three ... As was mentioned above there are 4 different bases in DNA: Adenine, Thymine, ... An important feature of bases in DNA is complimentary base pairing. ...
scienceaid.co.uk/biology/genetics/dna.html - Cached - Similar

Note from asker:
Thanks Liz. The thing is the writer actually uses "séquence" further in my document. I assume what is meant here is "serially repeated units". Please check out http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=case1279345476
Thank you for the complementary information, Liz !
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