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Dictionary » W » Wild type Wild typeDefinition noun (1) The typical (or the most common) form, appearance or strain existing in the wild. (2) The normal, non-mutated version of a gene common in nature. (3) The allele at each locus required to produce the wild-type phenotype.
The wild type is the most common form or phenotype in nature or in a natural breeding population. In genetics, the wild-type organisms serve as the original parent strain before a deliberate mutation is introduced (for research) so that geneticists can use them as reference to compare the naturally occurring genotypes and phenotypes of a given species against those of the deliberately mutated counterparts.
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Results from our forumPyrosequencing... orders and peak height ration will tell the prevalence of mutation in a wild type background.
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Knockout miceIf one parent is a wild-type mouse and the other is a homozygous knockout mouse, their offspring will be heterozygous at the knockout ...
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Pyrosequencing... when I reach a mutation hot spot, I add two dispensations - one for the wild type and one for the mutant nucleotide. Question1: how come that these hot spots always change ...
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Re: Muscular dystrophy inheritance question... This suggests the female may be a carrier with a DMD allele and a wild-type allele for dystrophin, but the pedigree makes it look like she is expressing the DMD phenotype. ...
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Re: Muscular dystrophy inheritance question... This suggests the female may be a carrier with a DMD allele and a wild-type allele for dystrophin, but the pedigree makes it look like she is expressing the DMD phenotype. ...
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