Definition of Haplotypes

1. Noun. (plural of haplotype) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of haplotype) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haplotypes

1. haplotype [n] - See also: haplotype

Medical Definition of Haplotypes

1. The genetic constitution of individuals with respect to one member of a pair of allelic genes; sets of single alleles or closely linked genes that tend to be inherited together, such as those of the major histocompatibility complex; portions of phenotypes determined by genes located on one of a pair of chromosomes. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haplotypes

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haplorhini
haplorrhine
haploscope
haploscopic
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haplosporidian
haplostele
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haplostemonous
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haplotypes (current term)
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happen along
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happenchance
happenchances
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happener
happeners
happeneth
happening

Literary usage of Haplotypes

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

1. Statistical Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees by Elizabeth A. Thompson (2000)
"Each phenotypic observation on an individual consists of a set of single- locus genotypes. For the case of two loci, haplotypes are unobservable only for ..."

2. SAS/Genetics(tm) 9.1.3 User's Guide by Wendy Czika, Xiang Yu, Virginia Clark, Rob Pratt (2005)
"A pair of haplotypes constitutes the multilocus genotype. Haplotype information has to be inferred as data are usually collected at the genotypic, ..."

3. SAS/Genetics 9.1 User's Guide by Wendy Czika, Xiang Yu, Virginia Clark, Rob Pratt (2004)
"A pain of haplotypes constitutes the multilocus genotype. Haplotype information has to be inferred as data are usually collected at the genotypic, ..."

4. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by T. P. Speed, Darlene Renee Goldstein (2003)
"[16] use a parsimony method to build an evolutionary tree of disease haplotypes assuming a disease mutation occurs in an intermarker interval. ..."

5. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"However, in populations, most haplotypes in the gene pool exist as sets of multiple, identical copies because of past DNA replication. ..."

6. Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program by Emily Ann Meyer, Kristine M. Gebbie, Kathi E. Hanna (2005)
"The frequencies of HLA haplotypes found in individuals differ among ethnic/racial groups. Some haplotypes are common to several populations; others may be ..."

7. Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Inference for Stochastic Processes by Ishwar V. Basawa, C. C. Heyde, Robert Lee Taylor (2001)
"They used a random intercepts model to examine the effects of haplotypes or genetic markers on the transmission of the mutation. Here we extend that model ..."

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