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haplosufficiency

haplosufficiency noun: the state of being haplosufficient.

Noun

haplosufficiency (uncountable)

  1. The state of being haplosufficient.
    • This group of intragenic revertant mutations was also tested for haplosufficiency by crossing homozygous gon-2(q388sup) hermaphrodites with gon-2(q388) males at restrictive temperature and scoring the offspring.2015 November 26, “Novel Alleles of gon-2, a C . elegans Ortholog of Mammalian TRPM6 and TRPM7, Obtained by Genetic Reversion Screens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of haplosufficiency

From haplo- + sufficiency.

Questions about haplosufficiency

What does haplosufficiency mean?
Haplosufficiency means the state of being haplosufficient.
What part of speech is haplosufficiency?
Haplosufficiency is a noun.

Words near haplosufficiency in the dictionary

  1. haplostele
  2. haplosteles
  3. haplostelic
  4. haplostemonous
  5. haplostephanous
  6. haplosufficiency
  7. haplosufficient
  8. haplotig
  9. haplotigs
  10. haplotilapiine
  11. haplotilapiines

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