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

An event that initiates an allele frequency change in an isolated part of the population, which is not typical of the original population, is called the founder effect.

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

These random changes in allele frequency are called genetic drift.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

The merged VCF file was then filtered using vcftools, to remove indels, multi-allelic loci, and loci with a minimum allele frequency < 0.05, with 394,885 SNP loci remaining.

From Nature • Dec. 25, 2016