paranome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

para- +‎ -ome

Noun[edit]

paranome (uncountable)

  1. (genetics) The complete set of paralogous genes in a genome.
    • 2011, Axel Meyer, Genome Evolution:
      They considered only proteins in the paranome (the set of all duplicate genes in the genome) and numbered them consecutively according to their positions on the chromosomes.
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