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HAPLOTYPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("haplotype" is a kind of...):

combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

 II. (verb) 

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Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb haplotype

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 Context examples: 

The DBA/2 mouse has a d H2 haplotype and carries the Cdh23ahl mutation that results in a progressive hearing loss beginning at 3-4 weeks of age and severe hearing loss after 3 months of age.

(DBA/2 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

A collaboration among scientists in Japan, the U.K., Canada, China, Nigeria, and the U.S. to develop a haplotype map of the human genome, the HapMap, which will describe the common patterns of human DNA sequence variation.

(International HapMap Project, NCI Thesaurus)

There are multiple haplotypes of the CYP2D6*1 allele.

(CYP2D6*1 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)