alleles

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Mutation introduces new alleles, and mating recombines existing alleles.

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(genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

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noun

(genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for alleles.

noun

(genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

Example sentences

Mutation introduces new alleles, and mating recombines existing alleles.

Once scientists had that genomic data in hand, they'd certainly find a profile of alleles which could feasibly describe why a negative reaction occurred.

That's true, but having said that, there are alleles that affect the nature of the language people speak.

So there are alleles that give onre better facility at speaking tonal languages, and those alleles are (surprise, surprise) more common among populations that speak tonal languages (such as Chinese).

Edited to add: In a limited population, of course, it quickly follows that competing alleles are genuinely competing.

The frequencies of alleles tend to form clusters where populations live closely together and interact over periods of time.

This causes genetic clusters to correlate statistically with population groups when a number of alleles are evaluated.

Thousands of alleles share some statistical pairwise correlation, as a result of evolving within a same population.

Or in other words, the frequency of the alleles tends to cluster differently for different populations.

He was admittedly quite surprised when my daughter turned out to have the problem alleles.

This wouldn't necessarily be impacted by the parents' deliberate choice of a few specific alleles.

What if there are alleles that select for intelligence--but also select for a mixture of cancer, OCD, suicidal depression, and plain batshit crazy?

Quote examples

From the article: "This means that there must be at least thousands of IQ alleles to account for the actual variation seen in the general population.

I suggest you read "The Selfish Gene." The inherent competition in evolution is not among individuals, it is among alleles.

And while there may be certain functional alleles that may increase odds of an initial false positive stimulation, by in large the entire class of failure known as "allergic reactions" is simply a result of how the system itself works.

If there are a set of alleles Ashkenazim have that the rest of humanity doesn't that are plausibly linked to intelligence, I've never heard of them." "Anonymous" also has an answer (1 May 2013) that is much better.