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GWA

GWA noun: allelic association for genes throughout a genome.

Noun

GWA (uncountable)

  1. Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
    • The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted.2010, Vicki Glaser, “Turning Data into Genomic Medicine”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 30, number 21, page 36

Proper noun capitalized: Gwa

Gwa

  1. A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

Origin of GWA

Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis

Questions about GWA

What does GWA mean?
GWA means allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
What part of speech is GWA?
GWA can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near GWA in the dictionary

  1. GVWR
  2. GVWRs
  3. GVWs
  4. gw
  5. GW506U78
  6. GWA
  7. Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw
  8. gwaai
  9. Gwabegar
  10. Gwadar
  11. gwailo

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