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null allele

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null allele [′nəl ə‚lēl]
(genetics)
An allele that does not produce a functional product and behaves as a recessive.


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When Shriver, who considers himself to be white, analyzed his own DNA, he found that it contained the Duffy null allele, found only in descendants of sub-Saharan Africans.
These methods permitted identification of the homozygous deleted gene, the so-called null allele (GSTM1- or GSTT1-), from the heterozygous and homozygous wild type haplotype, the wt allele (GSTMI+ or GSTTI+).
 
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