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allelic

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[uh-leel-ik] / əˈlil ɪk /

adjective

  1. Genetics. relating to or being an allele.


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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 • Nov. 29, 2023

Parental types are progeny that exhibit the same allelic combination as their parents.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Figure 19.2 When populations are in the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, the allelic frequency is stable from generation to generation and the distribution of alleles can be determined from the Hardy–Weinberg equation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

At gene scale, the genome of A. vaga is tetraploid and comprises both anciently duplicated segments and less divergent allelic regions.

From Nature • Aug. 21, 2013

Asterisks highlight colinearity breakpoints between scaffold av1 and its allelic partners av44, av94, av122, av316 and av448.

From Nature • Aug. 21, 2013

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