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Keywords: Locus, Population, Proportion, Gene, Quen

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The percentage of times a particular allele appears in a population. Another name, and the preferred term, for gene frequency.

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The frequency of an allele in a population.

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( gene frequency) The percentage of the copies of an allele at a given locus in a population.

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The relative proportion of a particular allele in a specific population.

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Describes the commonness of an allele in a given population, i.e. the percentage of all alleles at a given locus in a population gene pool represented by a particular allele.

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relative proportion of a particular allele among individuals of a population.

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( al-LEL FRE-quen-cy). The percentage of times a particular allele appears in a population, The same as gene frequencies, but the preferred term.

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W²v, Measurement of the proportion of individuals in a population carrying a particular allele.

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Often called gene frequency. A measure of how common an allele is in a population; the proportion of all alleles at one gene locus that are of one specific type in a population.

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(synonym: gene frequency) The proportion of individuals in a population who have inherited a specific gene mutation or variant

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the fraction of all the alleles of a gene in a population that are of one type.

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The percentage/frequency of a given allele in a defined population

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A measure of the commonness of an allele in a population; the proportion of all alleles of that gene in the population that are of this specific type.

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The proportion of a particular allele among the chromosomes carried by individuals in a population.

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The proportion of one allele relative to all alleles at a locus in a population. Also called gene frequency.

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