allele frequency

American  

[uh-leel free-kwuhn-see] / əˈlil ˈfri kwən si /

noun

1. Genetics. a measure of the relative frequency of a particular allele in a population, usually expressed as a decimal proportion.

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allele frequency Scientific  

1. The percentage of a population of a species that carries a particular allele on a given chromosome locus.

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Other Word Forms

• allele-frequency
  adjective

Example Sentences

Notably, an ancestry-biased mRNA isoform of SPSB2, likely driven by cross-population allele frequency differences in rs11064437, was found to be unannotated in canonical gene annotation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

The allele frequency within a given population can change depending on environmental factors; therefore, certain alleles become more widespread than others during the process of natural selection.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The table below summarizes a particular allele frequency in laboratory strains of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The SNP calling were performed by SAMtools mpileup package69, and SNPs with minor allele frequency lower than 5% were excluded from further analyses.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

Selective signatures from domestication include a reduction in nucleotide diversity and altered allele frequency in the domestication loci.

From Nature • Oct. 24, 2012