polymorphic

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The ABO gene is highly polymorphic, which is thought to be related to evolutionary changes for host-pathogen interactions, as many pathogens utilize surface glycoproteins in host invasion.

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  1. Same as polymorphous.

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  • That night, Lill was protean, polymorphic, very versatile. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • It's estimated that about one base out of every thousand is polymorphic, which means that there are about three million SNPs in the human genome. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • My body was made to be just one body: protean and polymorphic, but unified. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
  • Nucleotide sequences corresponding to cleaved amplified polymorphic (CAP) markers ECMCTT, HAMACT, Sp6-3M5, 10F1 / 3R2 and 10B21T72 / 5A (Macgregor et al., 2002), were queried against the —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • A total of 16 cleaved amplified polymorphic (CAPs) markers along —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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