haploinsufficiency

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haplo- +‎ insufficiency

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haploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural haploinsufficiencies)

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

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