Analleleis a term coined to describe a specificcopy of a gene.Genes, the DNA sequences controlling our traits, are usually found in two copies in eukaryoticgenomes; each copy (allele) is inherited from one paren
See Chromosome, Sex-linked inheritance In a population of diploid individuals, it is possible to have more than two alleles of a given gene. The aggregate of such alleles is called a multiple allelic series. Since genes are linear sequences of hundreds or even thousands of nucleotide base ...
Allelic LossDefinitionDNA sequence variant of a gene; also one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a position on a chromsome. As there are two copies of each chromosome in the human cell (except for the sex chromosomes X and Y), individuals have two alleles of ...
nounAny of the alternative forms of a gene or other homologous DNA sequence. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. nounone of two or more alternative forms of a gene that can have the same place on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative...
Some alleles are dominant or recessive. When an organism is heterozygous at a specific locus and carries one dominant and one recessive allele, the organism will express the dominant phenotype. Alleles can also refer to minor DNA sequence variations between alleles that do not necessarily influence ...
2.2.3.1 Generation of null alleles using CRISPR/Cas9 Originally, CRISPR-based techniques relied on the generation of null alleles through the replacement of the coding sequence of a specific gene with a selection marker, such as unc-119 or the SEC module. However, a simpler method relies on ...
To ensure dosage compensation between the sexes, one randomly chosen X chromosome is silenced in each female cell in the process of X-chromosome inactivation (XCI). XCI is initiated during early development through upregulation of the long non-coding RNA
First by Sanger sequencing analysis we confirmed the presence of the variant locus of STK36 (Chromosome 2: 219557978 G to A) in M45481 but not in A49910 (Fig. 4D), taking two independent pass- ages of each cell types. This mutation appeared to be novel. PolyPhen-2...
In heterozygous genomes, allele-specific measurements can reveal biologically significant differences in DNA methylation between homologous alleles associated with local changes in genetic sequence. Current approaches for detecting such events from whole
An antisense gene is a complete (full length) coding sequence of the gene of interest or a fragment thereof. An antisense gene may also be to an untranslated portion of an endogenous plant gene, such as a 5′ untranslated leader region or a 3′ untranslated terminator or polyadenylation ...