allele
allele
Definition
al·lele (ə lēl′)
noun
either of a pair of genes located at the same position on both members of a pair of chromosomes and conveying characters that are inherited in accordance with Mendelian law
Etymology: Ger allel < Gr allēlōn, of one another
allele
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- inherit: To be affected by the disease, which shows autosomal recessive inheritance, a baby must inherit a mutant allele from each parent.
- carry: There is also a slightly elevated creatine kinase level in females carrying a DMD disease allele.
- associate: Association studies The approach used to identify SNP alleles associated with disease susceptibility is conceptually quite straightforward.
Preposition: at
- locus: Multiple alleles at multiple gene loci plus environmental factors are involved in neural tube defects.
- marker: Bits are coded 0 or 1 according to whether the sib inherited its alleles at the marker from paternally or maternal derived chromosome.
Adjective modifier
- recessive: Here the recessive allele produces the ordinary blue, also called English blue or American blue.
- paternal: These sequence variants are called maternal and paternal alleles.
- mutant: A very few new mutant alleles can drift to fixation in this manner.
- deleterious: I am interested to see if purging of deleterious alleles by selection is occurring in captive populations.
- maternal: However, this approach is not suitable for the analysis of fetal genetic traits that do not differ largely from the maternal alleles.
- expanded: Expanded alleles at all of these loci are unstable, with frequent length changes during intergenerational transmission.
Preposition: on
- chromosome: If there is a green allele on chromosome 19 and the rest of the alleles are blue, eye color will be green.
Modifies a noun
- frequency: Genetically, races differ with respect to allele frequencies rather than in the possession of unique alleles.
Preposition: of
- gene: A locus can be occupied by any of the alleles of the gene.
Noun used with modifier
- premutation: Conclusions: Individuals carrying premutation alleles are at high risk of having affected offspring within a limited number of generations.
- wild-type: In 5/6 patients the wild-type allele was lost in the tumor samples, suggesting a causal role for the mutations in RCC.
- susceptibility: The susceptibility alleles underlying at least 70 % of the familial risk of breast cancer remain to be identified.
- marker: Model-based linkage disequilibrium unit ( LDU ) maps appear robust to marker density and consistently influenced by marker allele frequency.
- T: The T allele was associated with higher excretion rates than the C allele.
- resistance: By this time probably something like half of the alleles in the population are for resistance alleles.
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