Medical Definition of Selection coefficient

1. The proportion of progeny or potential progeny not surviving to sexual maturity; usually defined artificially by expressing the fitness of a phenotype as a fraction of the mean or optimal fitness to give the relative fitness, and subtracting this fraction from unity. If the mean size of family in the population is 3.2 and that for a particular genotype is 2.4 then the fitness of the phenotype is 2.4/3.2 =0.75 and the selection coefficient =1-0.75 =.25 = 5 (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selection Coefficient

selectable marker
selected
Selected Area Electron Diffraction
selectee
selectees
selectin
selecting
selectins
selection
selection
selectionist
selectionists
selections
selection (genetics)
selection bias
selection coefficient (current term)
selection cutting
selection pressure
selective
selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor
selectively
selectiveness
selectivenesses
selective amnesia
selective angiography
selective grinding
selective hypoaldosteronism
selective immunoglobulin A deficiency
selective information
selective inhibition

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