balanced polymorphism

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balanced polymorphism [′bal·ənst ¦päl·i′mȯr‚fiz·əm]

(genetics)

Maintenance in a population of two or more alleles in equilibrium at frequencies too high to be explained, particularly for the rarer of them, by mutation; commonly due to the selective advantage of a heterozygote over both homozygotes.

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