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allelic

American  
[uh-leel-ik] / əˈlil ɪk /

adjective

  1. Genetics. relating to or being an allele.


Other Word Forms

  • allelically adverb
  • multi-allelic adjective

Example Sentences

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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

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

For the allelic series in rabbits, the wild-type allele may supply a given dosage of fur pigment, whereas the mutants supply a lesser dosage or none at all.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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 • Dec. 25, 2016

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

From Nature • Aug. 21, 2013