0 the fact that something such as an animal or organism can exist in different forms:
Compounds that exist in more than one crystalline form are said to exhibit polymorphism.
a polymorphism that may have protected ancestral populations from a form of malaria
The present study evaluated the genetic diversity, structure and differentiation in a grape germplasm collection using polymorphisms at eight microsatellite loci.
Interestingly, patterns of polymorphisms in pfcrt have been correlated with geographical location.
In total, 70 % of unique polymorphisms checked in a second clone were confirmed as true polymorphisms.
In this review, we discuss the currently known polymorphisms in helminths generally, and then proceed to consider the filarial nematodes in particular.
Characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms in coding regions of human genes.
Table 1 lists the platelet glycoprotein antigen polymorphisms and their relation to clinical disease.
The possible functional implications of the analysed polymorphisms are considered.
Accounting for human polymorphisms predicted to affect protein function.
