haploinsufficiency

English

Etymology

haplo- +‎ insufficiency

Noun

haploinsufficiency (uncountable)

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

Related terms

haplosufficiency

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