karyotype location

02:51 Jan 31, 2019
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / Bioinformatics
English term or phrase: karyotype location
The text I'm translating is about gene testing and variant calling. The sentence in question is as follows:

The VCF should be sorted in karyotype location order (by chromosome and position).

Here, for "location" and "position", what do they exactly mean and what's their difference? My guess is, karyotype location is comprised of two elements: one is the name of chromosomes and the other is their position. What confuses me is that, if I have the name of a chromosome, doesn't its position automatically be known? So what's the point of this "and" in "chromosome and position"?

Thank you in advance.
Karen Zeng
China
Local time: 10:38


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3ubicación del cariotipo
Veronica Allievi
3(Order of) position
Yvonne Gallagher


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ubicación del cariotipo


Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyotype

Quizás la diferencia radique en que la "location" se refiera a la ubicación del conjunto de cromosomas o cariotipo dentro del núcleo de la célula eucarionte y la "posición" se refiera a la posición de los centrómeros de cada cromosoma, tal como dice Wikipedia.





Veronica Allievi
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(Order of) position


Explanation:
Not an expert in the field by any means but this s the way I understand it.

karyotype location order
i.e. it's how the location of the karyotype is ordered that is described within the brackets. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyotype

"...The chromosomes are depicted (by rearranging a photomicrograph) in a standard format known as a karyogram or idiogram: in pairs, ordered by size and position of centromere for chromosomes of the same size..."

Yvonne Gallagher
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