non-allelicadj.

1938 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 24 84 Non-allelic genes.

1962 I. H. Herskowitz Genetics vii. 53/1 Genes whose detection is hampered by nonallelic genes are said to be hypostatic.

1975 Jrnl. Med. Genetics 12 49 The different protein synthesis in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies suggests that these conditions are non-allelic.

1984 Jrnl. Heredity 75 383 In G[lycine] max (soybean)..male sterility is controlled by a single recessive allele nonallelic to previously reported male-sterile mutations.

1996 Amer. Naturalist 148 Suppl. 83 Strong nonallelic interactions were important for traits controlling the ‘response’ to a competitor.