epigenotype

English edit

Etymology edit

From epi- +‎ genotype; compare epigenetic.

Noun edit

epigenotype (plural epigenotypes)

(genetics) The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA.

Related terms edit

epigenotypic

Verb edit

epigenotype (third-person singular simple present epigenotypes, present participle epigenotyping, simple past and past participle epigenotyped)

To analyse or document such genotypes.

References edit

Richard G. Ham and Marilyn J. Veomett, Mechanisms of Development,^[1] Mosby (1980), →ISBN, page 331: “The inherited potential to express a particular type of differentiation has been termed the epigenotype of the cell. The implication of the term ‘epigenotype’ is that the predisposition of each cell to differentiate in a particular direction is a heritable characteristic that has somehow been superimposed on the basic genetic program of that cell.”