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Flanking marker

An identifiable, polymorphic region of DNA (i.e., marker) located to the side of a gene (i.e., flanking), as opposed to an intragenic marker which is located within the gene itself. Flanking markers are used in linkage analysis to track the coinheritance of the gene in question.

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