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Glossary Term
Glossary Term Parent
Definition In MGI, this term refers to terms in a hierarchical controlled vocabulary such as those containing Gene Ontology (GO) terms. A "parent" of a term is one any number of levels above it in the hierarchy from which it is descended. For example, the GO term enzyme [GO:0003824] is a parent to the GO term alcohol dehydrogenase [GO:0004022].
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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