genetic marker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticandmarker
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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marker
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɑː.kər/us/ˈmɑːr.kɚ/
a sign that shows where ...
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(Definition ofgeneticandmarkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, exploring anothergeneticmarkerand including more species should shed more light on this intriguing issue.
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The recessive mutation tufted was used as a reliablegeneticmarkerto trace transmission of the homologous chromosomes.
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Thus, in a two-dimensional population, barriers to gene flow can be detected through their effect on the spatial pattern ofgeneticmarkeralleles.
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These results challenge the validity of saccadic distractibility as a putativegeneticmarkerof schizophrenia.
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The presence or absence of an element at a particular chromosomal location serves as ageneticmarker.
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This point emphasizes the importance of the current study in the application ofgeneticmarkertechnology in practical breeding programmes.
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How to estimate relatedness accurately fromgeneticmarkerinformation has been explored recently by many methodological studies.
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This has ethical problems because, in the absence of a reliablegeneticmarker, 50 % of discarded male fetuses will be healthy.
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Depending on thegeneticmarkerconsidered, one model may be more appropriate.
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His two daughters have similar skeletal anomalies, but with identical cardiac lesions, as does another patient, raising the possibility of an associatedgeneticmarker.
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If reproductive isolation is complete then population genetic theory predicts that mutations will accumulate that differentiate the two host races, and should be detectable by neutralgeneticmarkeranalysis.
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A missing factor from these experiments is anygeneticmarkerin order to establish that adaptation represents selection from a polymorphic ancestral population, and to exclude any heritable epigenetic mechanism.
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Moreover, the closer thegeneticmarkerlies to the disease locus, the more often it will travel with the disease allele and not be separated during meiotic "crossing over" events.
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Associations can be economically and efficiently established, based on knowngeneticmarkerinformation from genetic diversity analysis and trait values of the corresponding genotypes of natural wild barley populations.
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Newgeneticmarkertechnology is helping to explore germplasm collections, optimize gene banks, identify potential for heterosis and develop breeding strategies.
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