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What is an allele?

What is an allele? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
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Empirical data, however, did not always detect a statistically significant skew toward rare alleles in the allele frequency distribution.
Nearly all right-handers are left-brained for language, suggesting that the D allele controls both handedness and brain dominance for language.
It is possible that this allele is non-functional and is compensated by other functional alleles in the same patient.
The change in allele frequency at the modifier locus during diploid selection is given by Recombination.
This sampling error causes random fluctuations in allele frequencies called genetic drift.
For a lethal recessive allele, mean frequency monotonically decreases as population size decreases.

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