locus

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To determine when the locus is activated during spermatogenesis and which factors are involved in this process, we have mined gene-expression data of testicular biopsies from men with different types of spermatogenic failure.

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  1. noun A locality; a place.
  2. noun A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration: "the cunning exploitation of loci of power; the insulation from normal American society” (Clifton Fadiman).
  3. noun Mathematics The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation or one or more algebraic conditions.
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  1. Latin.

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  1. from Latin locus, Old Latin stlocus, a place. From Latin locus are ult. English local, locality, etc., lieu, lieutenant, etc., locate, allocate, allow, collocate, couch, dislocate, etc.
  2. apparently adapted from loco, v., associated with hocus, v.
  3. See locus, v.
 

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