noun
definition
One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
Examples of alleles in a Sentence
These sequence variants are called maternal and paternal alleles.
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.
A very few new mutant alleles can drift to fixation in this manner.
The susceptibility alleles underlying at least 70% of the familial risk of breast cancer remain to be identified.
By this time probably something like half of the alleles in the population are for resistance alleles.
Relatives of mutation carriers were genotyped in order to study the segregation of mutant alleles with obesity.
Alleles are defined on the basis of the length of the amplified fragments.
The dominant and recessive alleles may not be so in other pairings.
This phenomenon, known as parental imprinting, indicates that the alternative parental alleles of some genes are not equivalent.
Mutations in DNA repair genes are strong candidates for at least a proportion of these unknown breast cancer predisposition alleles.
One theory is that mutated alleles are usually recessive.
Association studies are required to determine whether these loci are the site of susceptibility alleles in a subset of patients with CAE.
Altered cell surface expression of human MC1R variant receptor alleles associated with red hair and skin cancer risk.
I am interested to see if purging of deleterious alleles by selection is occurring in captive populations.
However, this approach is not suitable for the analysis of fetal genetic traits that do not differ largely from the maternal alleles.
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.