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interhomolog

interhomolog adjective: between homologs.

Adjective

interhomolog (not comparable)

  1. Between homologs
    • 8 A unified mechanism for the generation of mutations underlying oncogenesis and tumor progression based on defective DNA-damage response and the resultant prevalence of double-strand break (DSB) repair by interhomolog recombination (IHR) All supporting data are included as additional files.2015 July 25, Yogesh Kumar et al., “Massive interstitial copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity as evidence for cancer being a disease of the DNA-damage response”, in BMC Medical Genomics, volume 8, →DOI

Origin of interhomolog

From inter- + homolog.

Questions about interhomolog

What does interhomolog mean?
Interhomolog means between homologs.
What part of speech is interhomolog?
Interhomolog is an adjective.

Words near interhomolog in the dictionary

  1. interherd
  2. interheterologue
  3. interhexamer
  4. interhippocampal
  5. interhombomeric
  6. interhomolog
  7. interhomologous
  8. interhomologue
  9. interhospital
  10. interhost
  11. interhouse

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