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  • noun Plural form of haplotype.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haplotype.

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Examples

  • We've been able to map the entire human genome and examine chunks of DNA, known as haplotypes, and what they tell us starkly challenges conventional wisdom.

    Jon Entine: Why Humans are Different -- Oy Vey! 2008

  • SNPs that lie next to each other on a chromosome and are inherited together are called haplotypes; clusters of related haplotypes are called haplogroups.

    National Geographic News 2010

  • In that paper, the Bovine HapMap Consortium unveils a map that charts key DNA differences, called haplotypes, among the diverse branches of the bovine tree.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • In that paper, the Bovine HapMap Consortium unveils a map that charts key DNA differences, called haplotypes, among the diverse branches of the bovine tree.

    GEN News Highlights 2009

  • An associated scientific team has produced a map charting the key DNA differences, also known as haplotypes, between varieties of cattle.

    BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content 2009

  • An associated scientific team has produced a map charting the key DNA differences, also known as haplotypes, between varieties of cattle.

    BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content 2009

  • In that paper, the Bovine HapMap Consortium unveils a map that charts key DNA differences, called haplotypes, among the diverse branches of the bovine tree.

    Media Newswire 2009

  • They call them haplogroups and haplotypes, which come back probabilities and percentages—and it works.

    The Snow Whale John Minichillo 2011

  • Groups of related haplotypes are bunched together as haplogroups and haplogroups help geneticists track the geographic diversity of human populations over time.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • Smolenyak explained the difference between Y-DNA and mtDNA and HVRs and CRS and haplotypes and a bunch of other genetic acronyms that I will introduce you to later, Dear Reader.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

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