Definition of Position effect

1. Noun. (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome.

Category relationships: Genetic Science, Genetics
Generic synonyms: Consequence, Effect, Event, Issue, Outcome, Result, Upshot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Position Effect

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position effect (current term)
position paper
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Literary usage of Position effect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Disputed Handwriting: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work Upon by Jerome Buell Lavay, Berkeley (Calif.). Police Dept (1909)
"... an Unnatural and Cramped Position — Effect of the Brain on Guided Hand — Separating Characteristics From Guided Joint Signature — Detecting Writing by a ..."

2. Gene Expression in Field Crops: Bibliography January 1991-November 1992 edited by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"P62 Transgene expression variability (position effect) of CAT and GUS reporter genes driven by linked divergent T-DNA promoters. ..."

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