noun
definition
One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
Examples of allele in a Sentence
To be affected by the disease, which shows autosomal recessive inheritance, a baby must inherit a mutant allele from each parent.
In 5/6 patients the wild-type allele was lost in the tumor samples, suggesting a causal role for the mutations in RCC.
Allele frequencies are used where parental genotypes are missing.
Model-based linkage disequilibrium unit (LDU) maps appear robust to marker density and consistently influenced by marker allele frequency.
Here the recessive allele produces the ordinary blue, also called English blue or American blue.
Genetically, races differ with respect to allele frequencies rather than in the possession of unique allele frequencies rather than in the possession of unique alleles.
There is also a slightly elevated creatine kinase level in females carrying a DMD disease allele.
When only allele symbols are displayed an asterisk should precede them.
In this work, we have investigated the dynamics of a modifier allele which increases the strength of assortment.
The error model specifies how accurate the allele frequency estimates are.
If a mutated allele is fully penetrant this means all individuals who have this mutation will develop the disease.
An alternative approach examines the distortion of allele sharing among affected sibling pairs.
If there is a green allele on chromosome 19 and the rest of the allele on chromosome 19 and the rest of the alleles are blue, eye color will be green.
In the 1990s, researchers discovered specific information about the genetics of narcolepsy in the form of the HLA-DR2 allele.