haploinsufficiency

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

haploinsufficiency haploinsufficiencies

Etymology

From haplo- + insufficiency.

Related words

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