the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
gene frequency in American English
noun
the frequency of occurrence or proportions of different alleles of a particular gene in a given population
Also called: allele frequency
Word origin
[1925–30]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: decibel, gimmick, hot spot, off-line, runout
Examples of 'gene frequency' in a sentence
gene frequency
We first examined the gene frequency and the gene overlap in these signatures.
Shujun Huang, Leigh Murphy, Wayne Xu 2018, 'Genes and functions from breast cancer signatures', BMC Cancerhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-018-4388-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several formulae were proposed for the estimation of genetic distance between populations using gene frequency data.
Supriyo CHAKRABORTY, Saumendra Kumar BHATTACHARJEE, Gauri Datta SHARMA 2012, 'Comparative Study of Nei�s D with other Genetic Distance Measures between Barak ValleyMuslims and other Nations for ABO Locus', Notulae Scientia Biologicaehttp://notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/6644. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The protein bands resulted from electrophoresis were used to calculate the value of the gene frequency.
Riri Sarfan, Sutopo Sutopo, Edy Kurnianto 2017, 'Polimorfisme Protein Plasma Darah pada Kelinci Rex, Lokal dan New Zealand White (POLYMORPHISMOF BLOOD PLASMA PROTEIN OF REX, LOCAL AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE RABBIT)', Jurnal Veterinerhttps://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/jvet/article/view/30330. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The dispersion represents probable difference in gene frequency, reflected by the color and rate of saponin.
Luiz Augusto Copati Souza, Carlos Roberto Spehar, Roberto Lorena Bastos Santos 2004, 'Análise de imagem para determinação do teor de saponina em quinoa Image analysis todeterminate the saponin content in quinoa', Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2004000400014. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several formulae have been proposed for the estimation of the genetic distance betweenpopulations using gene frequency data.
Supriyo CHAKRABORTY 2010, 'Comparative Study of Various Genetic Distance Measures between Populations for theABO Gene', Notulae Scientia Biologicaehttp://www.notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/5447. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We compare the model predictions to empirical gene frequency distributions from 6 multiply sequenced species of bacterial pathogens.
Haegeman Bart, Weitz Joshua S 2012, 'A neutral theory of genome evolution and the frequency distribution of genes', BMC Genomicshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/196. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)