haploinsufficiency

English

Etymology

haplo- +‎ insufficiency

Noun

haploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural haploinsufficiencies)

(genetics) The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation

Antonyms

triplosensitivity

Related terms

haplosufficiency

Translations

Translations

Finnish: haploinsuffisienssi

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