haplosufficiency

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Etymology

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haplo- +‎ sufficiency

Noun

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haplosufficiency (uncountable)

  1. (genetics) The state of being haplosufficient.
    • 2015 November 26, “Novel Alleles of gon-2, a C . elegans Ortholog of Mammalian TRPM6 and TRPM7, Obtained by Genetic Reversion Screens”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      This group of intragenic revertant mutations was also tested for haplosufficiency by crossing homozygous gon-2(q388sup) hermaphrodites with gon-2(q388) males at restrictive temperature and scoring the offspring.