diploinsufficiency

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English

Etymology

From diplo- +‎ insufficiency.

Noun

diploinsufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural diploinsufficiencies)

  1. (genetics) The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation