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

The founder effect is when only a few males within a population are selected by females to reproduce, generating an allele frequency which is different from the original population.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The allele frequency is how often a specific allele occurs within the gene pool.

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

Selective signatures from domestication include a reduction in nucleotide diversity and altered allele frequency in the domestication loci.

From Nature • Oct. 24, 2012