haploinsufficiency

English

Etymology

From haplo- +‎ insufficiency.

Noun

haploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural haploinsufficiencies)

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

Antonyms

• triplosensitivity

Related terms

• haplosufficiency

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: haploinsuffisienssi