allelic

American  

[uh-leel-ik] / əˈlil ɪk /

adjective

1. Genetics. relating to or being an allele.

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Other Word Forms

• allelically adverb
• multi-allelic adjective

Example Sentences

MSL2, as revealed, may just be one example of such an allelic regulator, suggesting the existence of other factors performing similar roles.

From Science Daily

Once the genes responsible for palatability traits have been identified, and their allelic variants distinguished and associated with environmental modifications, one can foresee an improvement community that can pursue crosses for predictive breeding.

From Nature

However, to account for the overdispersion caused by the amplification process before library preparation, we assume allelic counts to be beta-binomially distributed.

From Nature

If allelic divergence is important for adaptation to a fluctuating environment, one might predict that recombination would be suppressed.

From Nature

Twenty candidate SSR loci with the greatest in silico allelic diversity were selected for wet laboratory testing on seven individuals from the European Diversity Panel.

From Nature