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

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allele frequency

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The founder effect is when only a few males within a population are selected by females to reproduce, generating an allele frequency which is different from the original population.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

We investigated the genes in a 700-kb window surrounding this region of 100% sweet allele frequency.

From Nature ● Feb. 7, 2017

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

From Nature ● Oct. 24, 2012