Definitions for Roma
It. ˈrɔ mɑro·ma

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma, Bohemiannoun

   a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)

2. Rome, Roma, Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italynoun

   capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Romanoun

   An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

2. Etymology: Some scholars believe the name Roma may be related to the term Ḍombā, which is the designation of members of a low caste of traveling musicians and dancers in Kashmir. (compare Matras 2005, Romani, A linguistic Introduction)

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1. Roma

   Representational oligonucleotide microarray analysis (ROMA) is a technique that was developed by Michael Wigler and Rob Lucito at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2003. Wigler and Lucito currently run laboratories at CSHL using ROMA to explore genomic copy number variation in cancer and other genetic diseases. In this technique, two genomes are compared for their differences in copy number on a microarray. The ROMA technology emerged from a previous method called representational difference analysis (RDA). ROMA, in comparison to other comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) techniques, has the advantage of reducing the complexity of a genome with a restriction enzyme which highly increases the efficiency of genomic fragment hybridization to a microarray. In ROMA, a genome is digested with a restriction enzyme, ligated with adapters specific to the restriction fragment sticky ends and amplified by PCR. After the PCR step, representations of the entire genome (restriction fragments) are amplified to pronounce relative increases, decreases or preserve equal copy number in the two genomes. The representations of the two different genomes are labeled with different fluorophores and co-hybridized to a microarray with probes specific to locations across the entire human genome. After analysis of the ROMA microarray image is completed, a copy number profile of the entire human genome is generated. This allows researchers to detect with high accuracy amplifications (amplicons) and deletions that occur across the entire genome. In cancer, the genome becomes very unstable, resulting in specific regions that may be deleted (if they contain a tumor suppressor) or amplified (if they contain an oncogene). Amplifications and deletions have also been observed in the normal human population and are referred to as Copy Number Polymorphisms (CNPs). Jonathan Sebat was one of the first researchers to report in the journal 'Science' in 2004 that these CNPs give rise to human genomic variation and may contribute to our phenotypic differences. Tremendous research efforts are being conducted now to understand the role of CNPs in normal human variation and neurological diseases such as autism. By understanding which regions of the genome have undergone copy number polymorphisms in disease, scientists can ultimately identify genes that are overexpressed or deleted and design drugs to compensate for these genes to cure genetic diseases.

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1. ROMA

   What does ROMA stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the ROMA acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ROMA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Roma is ranked #16560 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Roma surname appeared 1,733 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Roma.
   
   80.4% or 1,394 total occurrences were White.
   11.6% or 202 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   5.7% or 99 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.5% or 26 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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How to pronounce Roma?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Roma in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Roma in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Roma in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Roma in a Sentence

1. Our Homeland Chairman Laszlo Toroczkai:

   The allegedly fearful Roma threaten all of us, what I see are thousands of Hungarian compatriots living in fear of these criminals.

2. Matteo Salvini:

   I am having the Interior Ministry prepare a dossier on the Roma situation in Italy, we will try to understand how we can intervene, doing what years ago was called the census, we can now call it the registry or the situation, a picture -- to understand what we are dealing with.

3. Nils Muiznieks:

   Although Slovakia’s anti-discrimination framework is comprehensive, it provides a differing degree of protection for various vulnerable social groups and must be reformed to close all protection gaps, the placement of Roma children in special schools, the spatial segregation of Roma, and their substandard housing situation must also be addressed as a matter of priority.

4. Livia Jaroka:

   It's not normal that people should need to leave their country to be happy, roma and non-Roma poor shouldn't be imposed on other countries.

5. Scott Feinberg:

   At this point they are accepting that they are here, and they are not going away, and they are not the big, bad wolf they were made out to be, roma.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Roma
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Roma
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html