epigenotype

== English == === Etymology === From epi- +‎ genotype; compare epigenetic. === Noun === epigenotype (plural epigenotypes) (genetics) The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA. ==== Related terms ==== epigenotypic === Verb === epigenotype (third-person singular simple present epigenotypes, present participle epigenotyping, simple past and past participle epigenotyped) To analyse or document such genotypes. === See also === epigenetics epiphenotype epigenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === Richard G. Ham and Marilyn J. Veomett, Mechanisms of Development,[1] 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.”