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triallelic

triallelic adjective: having three different alleles at the same locus.

Adjective

triallelic (not comparable)

  1. Having three different alleles at the same locus
    • We excluded sites where the outgroup reference was in disagreement with both the D. yakuba reference and D. yakuba SNPs, as well as triallelic SNPs, sites with reference sequence of ‘N’, or SNPs identified in the VCF for the reference, suggesting inaccuracies in reference assembly or residual...2015 July 16, “Tandem Duplications and the Limits of Natural Selection in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of triallelic

From tri- + allelic.

Questions about triallelic

What does triallelic mean?
Triallelic means having three different alleles at the same locus.
What part of speech is triallelic?
Triallelic is an adjective.

Words near triallelic in the dictionary

  1. trialkylstannylated
  2. trialkyltin
  3. trialkyltins
  4. triallate
  5. trialled
  6. triallelic
  7. triallelism
  8. trialler
  9. triallers
  10. trialless
  11. trialling

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