How to Use haplotype in a Sentence

haplotype

noun
  • Presumably the modal haplotype and its near relations are those of the original Rurik.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2010
  • People tend to inherit groups of SNPs together, called a haplotype.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
  • These haplotypes became important for diagnosing sickle cell anemia, because some appeared to cause more severe disease than others.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This generates a extended region of homogeneity in the genome, in direction proportion of the frequency of the haplotype.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2012
  • Another woman from Buckland had a unique haplotype, a set of DNA variants that tend to be inherited together.
    — Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Such hot spots of related individuals with a specific haplotype may correlate with healthy lifestyles or may not, as shown by centenarians who used alcohol or were sedentary for much of their lives.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 20 June 2026
  • Early genetic studies suggested that five different kinds of DNA, known as haplotypes, surround the mutation.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • That particular group of genes (known as a haplotype) is shared by about half of the people in South Asia, 16% of people in Europe and 9% of Americans.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Second, the Pygmy sample shows a low SNP heterozygosity despite relatively high haplotype heterozygosity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2010

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