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pleiotropy

Pronunciation: plī-ot′rō-pē, plī-ō-trō′pē-ă
Production by a single mutant gene of apparently unrelated multiple effects at the clinical or phenotypic level.

[pleio- + G. tropos, turning]




 

 

 

 

 

 



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