GWA

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noun

Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.

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Meanings

GWA1

nounGWA (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAllelic association for genes throughout a genome.

    The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted.

    2010, Vicki Glaser, “Turning Data into Genomic Medicine”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 30, number 21, page 36

Gwa2

proper noun
  1. A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

Origin

Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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