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structural gene

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noun

Genetics.
  1. cistron.


Etymology

Origin of structural gene

First recorded in 1955–60

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To test how these preferences varied by cell type, we averaged TF gene versus structural gene propensities for all TFs within each cell-type regulatory network.

From Nature