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pan-genome

pan-genome is the alternative form of pangenome.

Meaning of pangenome

Noun

pangenome (plural pangenomes)

  1. The genome of all the strains of a particular clade (most commonly of bacteria and archaea).
    • Unlike the previous reference […] the new “pangenome” incorporates near-complete genetic sequences from 47 men and women of diverse origins, including African Americans, Caribbean Islanders, East Asians, West Africans and South Americans. […] But in due course, experts said, the pangenome will...2023 May 10, Elie Dolgin, “Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome”, in The New York Times

Forms of pan-genome

pluralpan-genomes

Questions about pan-genome

What is pan-genome the alternative form of?
Pan-genome is the alternative form of pangenome.

Words near pan-genome in the dictionary

  1. pan-fries
  2. pan-fry
  3. pan-frying
  4. pan-gender
  5. pan-gendered
  6. pan-genome
  7. Pan-German
  8. Pan-Germanism
  9. pan-Hispanism
  10. pan-hypogammaglobulinaemia
  11. pan-hypogammaglobulinaemias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pan-genome (page history and authors); pangenome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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