epigenotype
English
Etymology
From epi- + genotype; compare epigenetic.
Noun
epigenotype (plural epigenotypes)
- The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
See also
- epigenetics
- epiphenotype
References
- Richard G. Ham and Marilyn J. Veomett, Mechanisms of Development, Mosby (1980), →ISBN, page 331: “The inherited potential to express a particular type of differentiation has been termed the epigenotype of the cell. The implication of the term ‘epigenotype’ is that the predisposition of each cell to differentiate in a particular direction is a heritable characteristic that has somehow been superimposed on the basic genetic program of that cell.”