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Definition of Epistatic
1. Adjective. (genetics) Of or pertaining to epistasis, the interaction between genes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epistatic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Epistatic
1. Relating to epistasis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistatic
Literary usage of Epistatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"This condition is epistatic to the non-agouti condition of the tame guinea- pig.
... Therefore the agouti factor is epistatic, whether found in the wild, ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"Analogy is found with the condition of grey and black colors in mass, the
relationship of which to each other has been defined by the terms epistatic and ..."
3. The Genetic and the Operative Evidence Relating to Secondary Sexual Characters by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"It is curious at least to note that in the case of dominant white the term
epistatic has been much less often used than in the case of black. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"applies the terms "epistatic" and "hypostatic" to the relative capacity of one
unit to hide or to be hidden by another, owing to what I call latency due to ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"Considering the two sets of characters together, the factor A is found to mask
the factor R or is epistatic, to use Bateson's term. The absence of R, ie, ..."
6. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"The factor L is epistatic to F, the presence of V thus being ... This factor
covers all other factors and is thus epistatic to them; (8) S, striping factor, ..."
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