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What is a locus?

What is a locus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
  2. (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
  3. (genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
  4. (plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.
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The purity of Apollonian art, in contrast, implies quitting the locus of pain.
For a peaceful world that promotes international democracy, the locus of power and influence needs shifting.
With a multiallelic locus, there are more independent equations than the parameters to be estimated.
At the MAT locus, parental alleles in diploids differ by a heterology of 700 bp.
It all revolved around the idea that the body is a locus of memory, and it brought that idea into so many dimensions.
Nearly all cases of exceptional memory are domain-specific, and retention of sequences or arrays of digits is the most common locus.

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