paranome

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English

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Etymology

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From para- +‎ -ome.

Noun

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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.