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

D. If a change in the environment occurs suddenly, such as an increase in average temperature, where fruit production declines, analyze the effect of the change on allele frequency in the large and small populations.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The allele frequency within a given population can change depending on environmental factors; therefore, certain alleles become more widespread than others during the process of natural selection.

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

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