phenotype — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.

2. Any observable characteristic of an organism, such as its morphological, developmental, biochemical or physiological properties, or its behavior.

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   He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable characteristics.

   The phenome comprises all the possible observable traits of DNA, known as phenotypes. Six of the genetic markers associated with food were also related to at least one disease phenotype, including several types of cancer as well as type 2 diabetes.

   Meiklejohn believes the authors could use other methodologies like the FORensic Capture Enrichment panel, designed to isolate human DNA for identifying extended kinship, ancestry and phenotype analysis.

Verb

1. To evaluate or classify based on phenotype.

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   One hundred and sixty-two unrelated healthy Japanese subjects were genotyped with the polymerase chain reaction amplification method and 35 subjects were phenotyped with dextromethorphan.

Noun

1. what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment

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