How to Use allele in a Sentence

allele

noun

• The toy and miniature schnauzers analyzed in the study contained the small allele, while the giant schnauzers contained the large allele.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
• If egg and sperm fusion had occurred, the offspring would have two alleles.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• In six, the mother lizard had two different alleles, or variants of the same gene, that came from a mother and a father.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• This older female, in turn, received one of the alleles from her mother and the other from her father.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 June 2019
• The places where those repeats occur on a chromosome are called alleles.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• That’s because presumably the blonde allele comes from a common ancestor, which just happened to be over-sampled in a high drift regime.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2012
• Six of these pairs contained two alleles, or gene variants, carried by the water dragon.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 June 2019
• The Duffy negative allele was nearly absent in Europeans, and present in frequencies of ~95% in West Africa.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2010
• Those encounters left traces of human alleles in Neanderthal genomes, in the same way that Neanderthals, in turn, left traces in our modern genomes.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019
• Just like humans, canines inherit one allele from each parent for a certain gene.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2022
• In wild canids, wolves usually had two copies of the large allele with a few exceptions, while non-wolf species including foxes, jackals and African hunting dogs all had two copies of the small allele.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• This mutation creates a point of variation, resulting in what the team describes as either a small allele or a large allele.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
• The new allele accounts for another 1% all by itself, the researchers estimate.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
• These APOE genes — everyone has two of them — come in four slightly different variants called alleles.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 July 2017
• Viewing the algorithm through the lens of evolution, genes are the players, and each gene has a number of different strategies in the form of genetic variations, or alleles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2014
• Natural selection would then have strongly favored the union of those alleles that worked well together.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
• The other allele, called HO^P, gives a male smaller horns---but, fascinatingly, this version comes with its own benefit:a better chance of surviving.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2013
• If the recessive trait is caused by a minor allele with a frequency of p, p2 can converge upon zero very rapidly as p decreases in frequency.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2013
• Each variant has a version (more precisely, one of the alleles in a single nucleotide polymorphism) associated with a small boost to the trait in question.
  — Charles Murray, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
• For example, some of the archaic alleles Sankararaman spotted in Africans were in genes that suppress tumors and regulate hormones.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 20 Feb. 2020
• For example, the equations don’t account for mutations, which would introduce new alleles, or strategies, into the game.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2014
• An allele is a genetic variant, which arises through mutation.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2013
• The gene’s association with Alzheimer’s, first reported in 1993, relates to one version of it, known as an allele, that dramatically increases the risk of illness.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• This locus has an allele within it that is almost disjoint in frequency between Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2013
• Thanks to the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes recovered from ancient bones and teeth, scientists can recognize certain alleles that belong to our extinct cousins.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2019
• Perhaps early in development, genes may be more active, and just one allele consistently presses the button.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2017
• Some of these ancient alleles were beneficial, such as one that boosted immune responses.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2017
• The reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone seemed to be the result of a penA60 allele mutation.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Whereas a recessive allele requires two instances of it to be inherited together.
  — Mira Lazine, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• That means the companies must translate the demanding argot of genetics — alleles and phenotypes and centromeres — into something approachable, even simple, for physicians and laypersons alike.
  — Thomas Goetz, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2007

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024