See Also: family medicine(medicine)
Family medicine(health)
Mercer Family Medicine Center(health)
University of Wisconsin Dept. of Family Medicine(health)
Gene family(health)
Gene family(medicine)
Family, gene(health)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)

Gene family (medicine)


gene family
<molecular biology> A set of genes coding for diverse proteins which, by virtue of their high degree of sequence similarity, are believed to have evolved from a single ancestral gene. An example is the immunoglobulin family where the characteristic features of the constant domains are found in various cell surface receptors.