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haplo-insufficiency

haplo-insufficiency is the alternative form of haploinsufficiency.

Meaning of haploinsufficiency

Noun

haploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural haploinsufficiencies)

  1. The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation

Forms of haplo-insufficiency

pluralhaplo-insufficiencies

Questions about haplo-insufficiency

What is haplo-insufficiency the alternative form of?
Haplo-insufficiency is the alternative form of haploinsufficiency.

Words near haplo-insufficiency in the dictionary

  1. hapless
  2. haplessly
  3. haplessness
  4. haplic
  5. haplo-
  6. haplo-insufficiency
  7. haploabnormal
  8. haploabnormalities
  9. haploabnormality
  10. haploallele
  11. haploalleles

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